Album Reviews

Matt Wilson’s Arts and Crafts

The Scenic Route

2007-02-19

Trumpeter Terell Stanford steals the show in this interesting set from drummer and jazz arranger Matt Wilson. Loosely based on a “traveling theme,” the range from the experimental (#1) to the sublime (Monk’s “Feel the Sway” and Ornette Coleman’s “Rejoicing”) to the classic (“Tenderly” and the last cut which uses John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance” as a coda). I think the Coleman tune is the stand-out of the record. 02/07 MJVD

all reviews | all jazz reviews

More reviews tagged #Jazz

reviewed 03/2006
SONDRE LERCHE & THE FACES DOWN QUARTET
Duper Sessions
reviewed 07/2016
CCM Jazz Orchestra
In Search Of Garaj Mahal
reviewed 12/2008
THE JAMES MOODY & HANK JONES QUARTET
OUR DELIGHT
reviewed 04/2012
TED NASH QUARTET
The Creep
reviewed 01/2006
L. ZIADE
Project Chill: Memoirs of a Jazz Band
reviewed 02/2017
Milwaukee Jazz Orchestra
Welcome To Swingville

Compiled by the WYCE Journalism Club

The opinions expressed in these reviews are those of the individual volunteers that submitted the article and do not necessarily reflect the views of WYCE or GRCMC; nor its staff, donors, or affiliates.