"Slip" keeps the funky-based theme, this time using a blues scale as a vehicle for melodic and nuanced solos by Cameron, Rigby on soprano sax and Johnson on muted trumpet, all playing in free-form and ...

One track that stands out is Maedgen’s sultry August Nights, with its gorgeous tenor saxophone riffs and astute muted trumpet work by Mark Braud.

Ominously slow, swinging cymbal stabs guide low left- hand bass lines played on black and white for the menacing opening cut of this double disc set by Japan-based composer and arranger Tom Pierson, ...

Over this bed, a lone muted trumpet heralds the familiar melody. Then with a wink, the groove shifts to rim shots, and three plunger-muted trombones, royalty of the Orient that they are, declare ...