During the 80s and 90s, alto sax legend Phil Woods had arguably the best small acoustic group around, with classic albums like Bop Stew, Heaven and Bouquet setting the standard for modern bop sounds. This studio recording from April 2, 1989 in swinging Minneapolis, Minnesota, includes 2/3 of the rhythm section, drummer and leader Bill Goodwin with pianist Hal Galper (who also worked with Stan Getz during these years). With Billy Billy Peterson on bass, the trio works through a half doesn’t straight-ahead standards, along with a crisp bopper in “Jimmy’s Blues”. Goodwin is a master here, giving deft brush work to the gliding “Everything I Have Is Yours’, creating nimble military patterns on “Samba De Orfeu” and mixing well with Galper’s glassy touch on the classy “I Fall In Love Too Easily” and forming a nice frame for the glassy ivories on “Stella By Starlight”. Everyone stretches out a bit on the ten minute “There Is No Greater Love” with the outing a perfect rendition of how a V8 Jazz Engine should run.
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