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On The Out to Lunch Quintet: Live at the Artists' Quarter, Dave Milne does yeoman service trying to fill all three of Dolphy's Herculean shoes on alto sax, bass clarinet, and flute. Bassist Tom Lewis is a revelation—the best I've heard him on record—especially on the first two tracks that really stamped Dolphy's OTL as a masterpiece. Phil Hey admirably splits the difference between his own nuanced Ed Blackwell-oriented style and the torrid attack of Tony Williams on drums. Kelly Rossum is a worthy trumpet player in the Freddie Hubbard mold and contributes the lone non-Dolphy track at the end of the disc. And Dave Hagedorn, like Lewis, seems particularly inspired, putting forth the sort of percussive gusto that Bobby Hutcherson brought to the original. —Britt Robson, City Pages |
First of all, any local jazz community outside of New York that can pull off a credible rendition of Eric Dolphy's landmark Out to Lunch is a metropolis worth celebrating. That's the present this quintet awards us. Dolphy's time signatures and the floating rhythms, gusty momentum shifts, and passionate avant-garde-meets-tradition purée that poured out of the all-star quintet he assembled more than 40 years ago is no mean feat to approximate—and that's assuming you've got quality, sophisticated players on bass clarinet, flute, and vibraphone to call upon in the first place. Originally a one-gig affair, the OTLQ generated so much creative fun that they did it again over two nights in June at the AQ with the recording equipment on. ... Play "Rush Hour"
Rush Hour by Kelly Rossum
Out To Lunch Quintet