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 12/1969
BLUE NEBULA
Relative Dimensions
reviewed 08/2005
Organissimo
This is the Place
reviewed 12/2005
JAKE SHIMABUKURO
Dragon
reviewed 07/2014
WYNTON MARSALIS & MARCUS ROBERTS
TOGETHER AGAIN
reviewed 10/2012
PONCHO SANCHEZ AND HIS LATIN JAZZ BAND
LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD
reviewed 02/2013
CHRISTIAN HOWES
Southern Exposure

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.