I'm not quite sure what inspired trumpeter/composer Taylor Haskins to call this beautifully crafted set of chamber ballads Fuzzy Logic. Every note is etched with razor-sharp precision, and if anything, the generally downbeat emotions and whiff of Americana remind me of Bill Frisell at his melancholic best. Haskins is an experienced commercial film composer, and like Frisell, steeps his compositions with a strong sense of time and place. The CD opens with ‘Somewhere I Never Traveled’ and the bucolic sound of Native American drone flute and closes with a haunting melodica delivering the melody of Tom Waits' ‘Take It With Me’. Haskins plays both, but elsewhere takes lead with a precise, classically-toned trumpet on pithy originals with names like ‘Comfortable Disease’, ‘Conviction’ and ‘Too Far’. The rhythm section takes a backseat for the most part, and it's the sound of Ben Holders' richly voiced guitar and the bittersweet, lyrical and rhythmic strings that haunts most and adds a sedate beauty and note of optimism to the only other cover, Thomas Dolby's ‘Airwaves’.