Darwin Gross

Darwin Gross: Soul Speaks

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2000

This is a surprisingly productive session by an unknown (to me) vibraphonist, Darwin Gross, and a number of exceedingly well–known sidemen. If one is weighed by the company he keeps, Gross must surely be heavy; how else can one explain the presence on his date of such luminaries as pianists Hank Jones and John Lewis, bassists Ray Brown and Victor Gaskin, guitarist Rodney Jones or drummer Mickey Roker. Gross’s sound is described in the accompanying booklet as “mellow and bluesy,” ...