Read new WAKE UP! cd review from 04/30/10
WAKE UP! Featuring Daniel Carter on saxes, Demian Richardson on trumpet, David Moss on electric bass and Federico Ughi on drums. Whoa! This sh*t is truly heavy duty! Since downtown reeds & trumpeter Daniel Carter has played with just about everyone in the downtown scene for the past three decades & can be found on more than a hundred discs, he certainly needs no introduction to those in the know. Drum great Federico Ughi also gets around to playing with many of downtown's best improvisers & runs the 577 Records label. Daniel & Federico have worked together on a half dozen discs so far and recently added young upstart trumpeter Demian Richardson to their ever-growing clan. Bassist David Moss is a newer name for me that I've only seen a couple of discs so far.
Wake Up!'s philosophy is to wake up mankind, since they've become zombies slaving away & blindly accepting what has been handed to them. Wake Up!'s music is strong & spirited & intense! They are into solid grooves with burnin' solos from Daniel's sax and Demian's trumpet. On "The Queen" Demian plays some mighty electric wah-wah trumpet, sparring with Daniel's swirling sax and both interacting with the consistently slamming rhythm team. This is electric jazz at its best, super-tight and often in-your-face and not unlike some of the electric Miles sessions from the mid seventies. I dig the way the rhythm section speeds up and slows down throughout "Aiming to All Voices" which the horns on their toes as they trade ideas back and forth. There is a good deal of spirited interplay between all of the members of this great quartet, each player engaging the other and building the intensity to boiling point time and again. The quartet sound as if they are really having some fun, their vibe is infectious. Bassist David Moss was one who dropped this CD's off with us and was quite proud of the way the music came out. He should be, this is one of this month's hottest discs! - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, NYC
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