OK, you’ve got 30 seconds to find the melody in each song. Ready, set….
Christopher Parker/p, Kelley Hurt/voc, Daniel Carter/wwinds, Jaimie Branch/tp, William Parker/b and Gerald Cleaver/dr team up for five loose traffic jams of instruments. Hurt puffs, pants and gets hot under the collar around Carter’s flute on the operatic “Morning Ritual”, Branche’s trumpet is muted around the scattered drumming on “Truth & Fiction” and Parker goes from Tin Pan Alley to a dark and foreboding alley on “Over Your Own Two Feet”. Did anyone have accident insurance for all of the bumps and fender benders?