The Earl MacDonald 6

The Earl MacDonald 6: Echoes In The Night

by Paul Lewis
May 16, 2005

"There's gold in them there hills!... One could say this about Echoes In The Night, the debut album from the Earl MacDonald 6. The work was recorded in the hills of Storrs, on the University of Connecticut campus. That's where the “country ends and the sophistication begins. The sound and style of this album is totally cosmopolitan, modern, and fresh.

Pianist MacDonald (a veteran of Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau band, where he was musical director) is now ...