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Wilson Huggett Project: Field of Hope
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Five years after Max Roach Park (Jazz Direct, 2006), UK/South African bassist Dan Wilson and drummer Mark Huggett return with a multinational, multidimensional offering that continues and improves upon the strong suits of their earlier disc.On the one hand, there is a focus on establishing moods, often undergirded by deep and pleasing grooves; this tendency would, if unchecked, lead the performances toward nicely played, attractively conceived background music. On the other hand, their international coterie of players serves ...
read moreDan Wilson / Mark Huggett Project: Max Roach Park
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Too few musical groups call themselves projects"; perhaps they fear unwarranted comparison with the Alan Parsons Project (you know, I Am The Eye In The Sky"). As indeed they should. Some groups nevertheless really are projects, which is to say, not necessarily long-term relationships but rather short to medium-term agglomerations of talent, with a fixed objective and a focused vision. So it is with Max Roach Park, the new record by the Dan Wilson/Mark Huggett Project. (The ...
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