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| 1. | Wooden Eye
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| 2. | Boo Boo's Birthday
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| 3. | A Dusting of Snow
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| 4. | Big Butt
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| 5. | Grand Central
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| 6. | Strangers In The Night
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| 7. | Making Babies
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| 8. | Daymaker (for Audrey)
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| 9. | Go Team Go!
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| 10. | Cinderblock Shelter
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| 11. | I've Found a New Baby
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Jazz
Post-Bop
Recorded: Mar 2, 1999, Maggie's Farm, Pipersville, Pennsylvania
Matt Wilson (vocals, drums); Joel Frahm (vocals, soprano & tenor saxophones); Andrew D'Angelo (vocals, alto saxophone, bass clarinet); Yosuke Inouye (vocals, acoustic & electric basses)
A band like this allows the music to go places and courageously goes along for the ride. While the destinations are of importance, how we get there is often what's most rewarding. Smooth roads, bumpy roads, beautiful landscapes, weird detours and nice surprises all combine here for THE SCENIC ROUTE. We hope you enjoy the journey!" Matt comments about the recording.
Matt contributes four unique tunes including "The Scenic Route," "25 Years of Rootabagas," "Feel the Sway," and "In Touch with Dewey."
Also included are Ornette Coleman's "Rejoicing," Bobby Hutcherson's "Little B's Poem," Pat Metheny's "The Bat," Thelonious Monk's "We See," Donald Ayler's "Our Prayer" which is blended with John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" and a swinging version of "Tenderly."
This recording is dedicated to the memory of saxophonist Dewey Redman
(May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006)
Matt played with Dewey from 1994 to his passing, which happened just prior to the making of the album. Matt remembers Dewey fondly: "Dewey was a special musician whose sound and openness to all kinds of music made playing with him a treat. He was an incredible man and I loved him dearly."
One of the most versatile and touted drummers in jazz, Matt Wilson is known for mixing things up and infusing his music with intelligence, humor and non-stop energy. A favorite of the college/progressive music crowd, he raps, recites Carl Sandburg's poetry to his music and is known to wear wigs from time to time. Wilson can play one night with Ohad Talmor's out MOB Trio and then keep rhythm the next for straight-ahead pianist, Bill Mays.
A composer, bandleader and an educator, Wilson's versatility extends to his own bands. His last CD, Humidity, featured his most well-known group, the Matt Wilson Quartet, a formation of two saxophones, bass and drum. The CD was universally praised by NPR's "Fresh Air," The New Yorker Magazine and other prominent national outlets.
For his third CD, drummer Wilson and his quartet are all over the improvisational landscape, and they are having a good time doing it. Saxophone histrionics, frantic passages, introspective moments, the ever pungent drumming of Wilson shading and inventing new ways to swing, it's all here, and more. Joined by tenor and soprano saxophonist Joel Frahm and altoist and bass clarinetist Andrew D'Angelo, Wilson and bassist Yosuke Inoue provide every rhythmic shape and stance for the reed players to fully cut loose, and they do in a harmonic wonderland very inspired by Eric Dolphy. There are familiar musical signposts. "Strangers In The Night" is so mysteriously understated in a no-time feel it is not recognizable until the end. "I Found A New Baby" is oom-pah-pah Kurt Weill circus-like and frenetic, and Thelonious Monk's "Boo Boo's Birthday" is done in a pretty straight, soulful, half-tempo take, until the garrulous ending. They also do a supersonic be-bonic, faster than the original version of John Coltrane's "Grand Central." "Wooden Eye" is a back-and-forth blazingly out to blusily swinging two headed monster, "Big Butt" a free funk with the Dolphy twins wailing, and the duck call like honking and churning latin and hard bop rhythms are orgy-like on "Making Babies." At their most hilarious on "Go Team Go!," the band romps through a freaky instrumental fan-fare, then campily paraphrases the stair-step sports "charge, " "Take Me Out (i.e. OUT!) To The Ballgame," and the nine clap progession that precedes "Let's Go," bassist Inoue rattling the grandstands. Funny! There are more meditative moments like "A Dusting Of Snow," Wilson softly and deliberately tossing out waves of wafting spontaneous percussionistic flakes, the beautiful alto-soprano tandem for "Daymaker," and the dirge-like caravan mode during "Cinderblock Shelter." Wilson is making some of the more challenging original group material out there in the latter '90s. Those who enjoy bass clarinet need to pick up on D'Angelo, he's playing a lot of it on this CD, and Frahm is pretty hot too. It's short of 47 minutes long, a detriment for long winded improvisors as these, but it's a concentrated time frame, chock full of music that should bring happiness to even the most sour and dour avant mavens. Recommended.
---Michael G. Nastos, allmusic |
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