Mike Stern: All Over the Place – review

(Heads Up)Former Miles Davis guitarist Mike Stern takes an all-embracing approach here, mixing up funk, blues, African music, soul-jazz, bebop and ballads. He takes an equally sweeping approach to recruiting studio lineups, too: there are star appearances from Esperanza Spalding, Richard Bona, Randy Brecker, sax heavyweights Chris Potter, Kenny Garrett and Bob Malach, and drummer Dave Weckl. All this can sometimes make it seem as though Stern treats recording like trying on costumes, but his ex...

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