Jay Phelps: Jaywalkin' - review

(Specific Jazz)Phelps is the fine young Vancouver-raised trumpeter from the original lineup of prizewinning UK postbop band Empirical. Here, he mixes sparkily swinging originals with Jackie McLean, Count Basie and Tchaikovsky imports, but he's chosen anything but a cosily mainstream band in hiring one of the budding creative stars of the UK scene in saxist Shabaka Hutchings. Jon Gee and Gene Calderazzo on piano and drums aren't conservative options either. The title track is a coolly grooving m...

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