David Sills: Natural Lines

Firm-toned tenor saxist David Sills brings in a two guitar team of Mike Scott and Larry Koonse for a clever quintet pulsed by drummer Tim Pleasant and bassist Blake White. He also plays a mean little flute, smoothly sailing on Bill Evans’  “Interplay”, creating spacious cirrus clouds on Miles Davis’ “Nardis” and wafting to delicate guitars during Alan Broadbent’s samba of “Quiet Is The Star”. His tenor hops to Pleasant’s crisp sticks on a clever remake of the George Gershwin classic for “Foggy Daze” and the guitars guide well on Koonse’s “Sync Or Swim” with the guitars gloriously relaxed on “Lover Man.” A ditty with only guitars and tenor results in a cute and free flowing “All The Little Things” that oozes in spontaneity, with the whole band digging in on “Outside Corner”. A new way of doing “sax and strings”!

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