Featuring tenorist/bass clarinettist John Ellis and drummer Johnathan Blake whose own Homeward Bound was such a thrill in 2021, Swedish/Italian US bassist Massimo Biolcati, best known for his work with Lionel Loueke and Ferenc Nemeth in Gilfema, lands On A Misty Night to take the standards route on a handsomely recorded studio release blessed with the sonics of Sear Sound and recorded at the end of 2022. The title track is a Tadd Dameron piece that goes back to the pianist's 1957 Prestige album Mating Call that Dameron recorded with John Coltrane, Wizard of the Vibes bassist John Simmons and the First Great Miles Davis Quintet drummer Philly Joe Jones and which has been covered in recent years by the late Dr Lonnie Smith. There are few finer jazz bassists of his generation than Biolcati and On A Misty Night is the latest reminder - particularly his beautifully gauged beginning to 'For All We Know' - of that realisation first made when Gilfema first lit us up inside in 2005. Massimo Biolcati, photo: via Bandcamp. 'East of the Sun' is streaming ahead of the 19 May release
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