Steve Gadd: Gadditude
Author: Andy Robson
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Musicians: |
Walt Fowler (t, flhn) |
Label: |
BFM Jazz |
Magazine Review Date: |
March/2014 |
Catalogue Number: |
BFM477055 |
RecordDate: |
date not stated |
Thankfully this virtuoso crew are more than James Taylor's backing band, although doubtless that's how this release will sell it. Indeed, it's rather more than the Gadd band, as Goldings and Landau wrote significant amounts of material, while the project's feel is very much of a collective jam. If any individual steals the show, it's Goldings with his organ work, dark and soulful on the Miles-ish ‘Africa’, or with a New Orleans bounce on ‘Who Knows Blues’, both Landau tunes. Each member has space to stretch: Landau is blue and swinging against Gadd's brushes on the Jarrett ballad ‘Country’, now turned to a waltz, while the inevitable Radiohead cover, ‘Scatterbrain’ (who predicted the Oxford boys would be writing jazz standards for the 21st century?) completes the album with an eery, collective work out. A rare chance to hear fine musicians, under no pressure, stretching out for their own pleasure.

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