AUGUST 2003

By ED FRIEDLAND
Bass Player Magazine Music Critic

Tenor sax man Davis plays with the lilting melodicism of Dexter Gordon with a hard-bop edge. Peter Washington establishes himself once again as a leading exponent of the straightahead schools of Paul Chambers and Ray Brown: solid time, natural tone, melodic solos, and unfailing support. And with Cedar Walton on piano and Joe Farnsworth on drums, you have a top-notch quartet, not a group of young pretenders. This is a great collection of swinging jazz in the classic mold.

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