If you want to hear some beautiful guitar playing, look for this one. Jesse cook puts together 14 tracks with a rotating supporting team that includes Chendy Leon/dr, Maninho Costa/perc, Chris Church/violins, Amy Laing/cello, Pat Collins/b, Tom Szczesniak/p and Emma-Lee/voc that tries to, and succeeds at capturing the mood of vintage Miles Davis sessions. Obviously, the instrumentation is quite different, but the spacious atmosphere, gentle melodies and ruminating themes on Cook’s material such as “Fields of Blue” and “Miles Shorter” have that graceful modal sonic environment. Emma-Lee sings on a dreamy take of “I Put A Spell On You”; after that it’s all Cook’s material and the mix of sublime sounds and sophisticated guitar pickings make for an intriguing amalgamation of sounds and styles. Moody, yet not in the background music sense of things. Alluringly drawing you in, Cook creates a warm meal that you’ll keep coming back to.
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