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Ross Hammond - Oliver Lake - Mike Pride: Our Place On The Wheel
ByThis is the blues, but one whose locus cannot be affixed to a place. The music lands in Mississippi, Appalachia, and India. Hammond's steel guitar performance is steeped in blues feel but also draws from sitar-like sound on "Use Them Wisely." Why not, the blues are universal. With Pride's demonstrative drumming and Lake's saxophone vocalizations the music becomes a joyful blues, and that's not an oxymoron. Hammond draws on a plaintiff sound ("Mosaic") with Pride and Lake gathering energy as the music progresses. Lake's articulations burn through the piece, then turn gentle with a breathy extended technique. This mixed and matched stratagem expands the conception of the blues feel. "Gratitude" interweaves an organic folk sound with the sympathetic spirituality of Lake's alto and Pride's percussive rumblings, bells, sticks, and cymbals. The music rekindles the spiritual jazz of the 1960s with an all-welcome global perspective.
Track Listing
Low Rent; Mosaic; Use Them Wisely; We’re Well Into The Fall; Our Place On The Wheel; Gratitude.
Personnel
Ross Hammond
guitarRoss Hammond: steel guitar; Oliver Lake: alto saxophone; Mike Pride: percussion.
Album information
Title: Our Place On The Wheel | Year Released: 2020 | Record Label: Prescott Recordings
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