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Bumbling Thumbs Blues by Kate Olson

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Album Title: So It Goes
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026

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About the Album

Saxophonist Kate Olson's So It Goes captures the wide-open imagination and understated cool of her chord-less Seattle quartet, thriving on the interplay and invention built through steady collaboration on Northwest stages. With Tim Carey on electric bass, Evan Woodle on drums, and Conner Eisenmenger on trombone, the band presents a set of originals, with their chemistry shining on angular, bebop-inflected tunes like "All Pear Shaped" and "Bumbling Thumbs Blues," and on their wistful explorations of "Afterthoughts" and "Pink Mountain." Guests Wayne Horvitz and Geoff Harper lend warmth to the title cut, a gospel-tinged reflection on the Kurt Vonnegut character Billy Pilgrim, and join again on the one cover tune, a radiant take of Alice Coltrane's "Translinear Light." From joyful to contemplative, Olson's Quartet values conversation over perfection, shaping a sound that's at once exploratory, organic, and deeply Northwest.

Tracks

Bumbling Thumbs Blues; ShouldaCoulda; All Pear-Shaped; Nominally Challenged; So It Goes; Translinear Light; Pink Mountain; Afterthoughts; Weigh Out.

Personnel

Additional Personnel

Wayne Horvitz: piano; Geoff Harper: bass, acoustic.

Reviews

So It Goes by Jack Bowers

Date featured

February 11, 2026

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