Manjazz
Trumpeter Pelt's latest quintet recording displays his usual penchant for making the old sound new and exhilaratingly alive. There are nods to Miles Davis' second great group in the playing here, and saxophonist J.D. Allen occasionally makes like Coltrane with a flurry of runs. The overall feeling in these nine originals is warm and mellow, though Pelt ends the album with the flamethrower “466-64 (Freedom Fighters),” a composition inspired by a visit to Nelson Mandela's Cape Town prison cell.
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– GLENN WHIPP
