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- Date Released: May 13, 2008
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Greenleaf Music / Koch Records
The buff power of fusion mixed with the gymnastic agility of bop.
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We Say...
Achieving the buff power of fusion with the gymnastic agility of bop is usually an impossibly hard bargain for jazz ensembles to negotiate, but Dave Douglas manages it on Moonshine. Renaming the sextet he deployed on 2005’s Keystone as Keystone is as inconsequential as his decision to once again pay homage to the films of Fatty Arbuckle. No, what matters is DJ Olive has been granted a third dimension in the mix, that new keyboardist Adam Benjamin seems more creative at providing both bite and body language to the midrange textures than his predecessor and that the other pairs — rhythm section Gene Lake on drums and bassist Brad Jones, and front line horns Marcus Strickland on sax and Douglas on trumpet — take turns slamming the groove into the pocket and surging forward with centipede tap dances.
Half these songs are solid placeholders in the Douglas canon, distinguished by a few extra blips from the turntables and keys and a hedonistic but semi-static funk-bop fetish. But the title track features a metallic swagger that yields to a funk groove undergirded by steel springs, which is in turn a great foil for the rippling horn solos. “Scopes” is Strickland nodding to Trane at warp speed; “Kitten” is a throttle-down fusion snarl until the horns twist it into industrial strength bop halfway through; and the closer, “Tough,” can’t decide whether it wants to pay homage to the Headhunters, a jazzier Bar-Kays or a more simple-minded Weather Report. In any case, you’ll have a blast helping them figure it out.
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| 01. |  |
Dog Star |
5:02 |
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| 02. | |
Moonshine |
7:30 |
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| 03. | |
Married Life |
9:44 |
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| 04. | |
Silent Stars |
8:39 |
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| 05. | |
Scopes |
2:39 |
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| 06. | |
Flood Plain |
7:42 |
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| 07. | |
Kitten |
4:23 |
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| 08. | |
Tough |
10:54 |
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08 Total Tracks, 56:33 Total Length
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