Allen Hoist

Allen Hoist: Just Before Spring

by Dave Hughes
June 1, 2001

This CD is absolutely astonishing.

I have amassed a pretty awesome jazz collection over the past 25 years, and I get all sorts of CDs to review, but it’s rare that I hear a new CD that just blows me away as much as this one has. Allen Hoist, a virtual unknown on the U.S. music scene but a major player in Paris, is quite simply one of the most outrageously talented musicians I’ve heard in a long time. And ...