COMPOSERS: Fourplay
LABELS: Bluebird
PERFORMER: FOURPLAY
CATALOGUE NO: 09026 63916 2 (distr. BMG)
Move from a trio to a quartet, and from a telling perspective on jazz history to the music’s interpenetration with rock, and we arrive at FOURPLAY’s likeable Heartfelt.
Occupying the position once held by Chick Corea as the acceptable face of fusion, this is a typically sunny and upbeat offering, informed as ever by pianist Bob James’s early work in the avant-garde by way of imaginative chord voicings and occasionally unexpected time signatures.