Andy Ezrin: I Was There

If you’re known by the company you keep, pianist/composer Andy Ezrin should be better known. This album has him with the pick of the litter mixing and matching from solo settings to quintets with Donny McCaslin/ss-ts, Randy Brecker/tp, John Patitucci/b and Ari Hoenig-Marcus Gilmore/dr. On his lonesome, he displays a graceful touch for his lyrical “Cascades”, with the trio kinetic and cleverly intricate on “Lost Days” and “Luna”. McCaslin is elegant on tenor for “If I Don’t See You” and soulful with the leader on Rhodes for “This Is What It Is” while his soprano is fluid for the creative “Siren Song”. Brecker adds muscle to the hip “Grapes” with the rhythm section of Gilmore/Patitucci and Ezrin grooving like cylinders in a Shelby Cobra. Good cruising.

 

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