It’s album titles like this that make you glad that there aren’t brick and mortar record stores anymore. Can you imagine going in and asking, “Excuse me, but do you have ‘Finding Love In An Oligarchy On a Dying Planet”? There’s the door!
Anyway, I digress.
Actually, this album by drummer and composer Rob Garcia is an impressive post bop collection. The core team has him riding the reigns for Noah Preminger/ts, Gary Versace/p and Masa Kamaguchi/b as the leader creates some exotica with tom toms for Preminger’s sighing tenor on”Beautiful Dreamer” and drives the team into post bop assertiveness on the intricate “Terror, Fear and Media.” Vocalist Kate McGarry delivers a message on the longing “People Are Everywhere” and the tricky “The Journey Is The Destination” and a spoken message from npr is delivered by Brendan Burke on the free flying “Mac N Cheese.” Tenor saxist Joe Lovano rolls in the Ben Webster fog on the elegant “Precious Lives” and the tricky to cruising “Greenland is Turning Green.” The leader takes the spotlight on “Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier” and “Act Local #2”. Feel like each song has a message from NPR?
Bju Records