Drummer Joe Syrian brings together the hard bopping team of Adam Birnbaum/p, Paul Bollenback/g, Lorin Cohen/b, Carl Maraghi/as-bs, Tim Ries/ts, Dave Rieckenberg/ts-bcl, Nick Marchionne/tp-fh, Doug Beavers/tb and guests Kenny Washington/voc, Joe Locke/vib and Luisito Quintro/perc for a seizzling session. The three guests shine with rich voice on the cool and crisp ‘People Make The World Go Round” and the instrumentally soulful take of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing”.
The core team bops hard on “I Should Care” and features some tasty Bensonish guitar work on “This Masquerade”. The horns get elegiac on The Beatles’ “Here, There and Everywhere” and feature some dark tenor work by Rieckenberg on “Night and Day”. Motown is in town!