Bob Wolfman: Transition

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Elsen Price (b)
Stuart Vandegraaf (ss, cl)
Metin Yilmaz (perc)
Alexander Inman-Hislop (d)
Zela Margossian (p)
Adem Yilmaz (perc)

Label:

Art As Catharsis

August/2019

Media Format:

CD

Catalogue Number:

1966

RecordDate:

June 2018

Despite his name, Bob Wolfman is a clean-cut lad with a country-rock-jazz guitar style, a light, high-pitched voice and a bookful of original songs united by the device of taking one phrase though different keys, Michel Legrand-style, but without the elegance.

Pianist Argenti is flashy but hit-and-miss, so producer Larry Coryell supplies whatever jazz interest is here, though too often he is tempted to stamp on the grunge pedal and burn a few bars of Jimi Hendrix. The arrangements are well rehearsed and tightly played over a starry rhythm section punching out neat latin beats, but this curious potpourri package is unlikely to detain many readers of Jazzwise.

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