You’ve got a chiropractors delight with so many ‘bones in one room as Scott Whitfiled, Brett Stamps and Pete Madsen take on the tenor slider, Steve Wilson carries the bass horn, and the four gents are driven bby the rhythm team of Ben Tweedt/p-key, Mark Haar/b and Doug Montera/dr for a collect of brass attacks.
The horns show that they are able to show warm harmonies and restraint, displayed on the gorgeous unison intro to the elegiac “Rebirth: Hope Springs Eternal”, while they strut to Tweedt’s keys and Montera’s strutting stick son “Ethanology”. Hints of Woody Herman’s Herd pop up on the hip “Lula Look” with all the Stamps and Whitfeld going man a mano with Haar and Montera, while Tweedt gets some space on the Latin Lover of “Flo Jo Express”. Everyone but Wilson gets a chance in the spotlight, and each has a fingerprint sound while mixing in well to a fist pumper of a session. More sliding than Ricky Henderson.