Pianist/composer Ron Davis hails from Toronto, and this album has him mixing jazz, classical and latin in an exciting album. The jazz team of Davis/-p-B3-key, Kevin Barrett/g-banj, Mike Downes/b and Roger Travassos/dr is supplemented on many of the tracks by a mix of violins, violas and cellos, making for some sounds that can fill the dance floor with a tango-rhuma as on “D’hora” or a funky disco tune like “ Gruvmuv.” A melding of Headhunter keyboards and Bartok strings are found on “Fugue & Variations on gaga and Poker Face” while at one moment “Love Song” sounds like something from a John Barry film and then Barrett’s electric guitar turns it into a 70s rocker. Some nimble chamber jazz on “Jeanamora” makes you wish for more of the same, as Davis’s inner Bill Evans pops up here, but no matter the environment, there is something fresh in every chord.
Really Records