Talk about bustle, well Gerald Cleaver heard recently with Benny Golson at Cadogan Hall here with his band Violet Hour. Still I'd contend he is better playing avant best of all with the much missed Tomasz Stańko on the beautiful Wisława.
Just a track from Live at Firehouse 12: I hear quite a bit of Jimmy Cobb in his playing although Cobb wouldn't handle the ferocity of the tempo here through choice quite so easily these days.
Simply what shoots forth here flies. Trumpet rules as well. The horn players queue up to take their turn. While JD Allen is a mesmerising presence and of course impresses it is Jeremy Pelt who rules like no other since Freddie Hubbard, rest in power, in the idiom stooping to a 'woody woodpecker' type figure. Hold on to your hats, a warm wind is blowing.
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