Following his previous mellow-ish widescreen ventures leading a 18-piece ensemble and string quartet, the mid-west trumpeter Paul Dietrich, for his 5th album as leader, downscales to a quartet. Doing so he tips his cap to Frisell’s early infusions of folk-rock Americana into jazz with some loose, intuitive yet refined group interaction and an understated dose of earthy garage-band sonics. The leader’s trumpet themes drift along dreamily like a tiring horse strolling lazily across some dusty landscape, and with a sense of bruised melancholy. Half the appeal is Dietrich’s blurry, wistful lyricism and knack for finding logical melodic routes in his solos in pretty hypnotic dialogue with the Chicago guitarist and Makaya McCraven/Marquis Hill sideman Matt Gold, who’s also a strong soloist here. Bassist Courage and drummer Drobka are noteworthy contributors too. It’s recorded in a concert hall rather than a studio, but has a raw quality that lends the recording an often spookily evocative tone.