One of those curious cases when just about everyone on your record is better known than you are. It might not matter except that a casual browser might skate over this release not really knowing how good a player Dutchman-in-New York Marius Van Den Brink is both as a hard bop attuned writer and as a driving pianist. And that band? Saxist Stacy Dillard, trumpeter Sean Jones, bassist Matt Penman, drummer Willie Jones III and percussionist Keita Ogawa plus guests play a bunch of authentic tunes that sound as if they belong in the Golden Age of jazz in the 1960s all apart from the folkloric 'In Greece We Drink'. Van den Brink's reputation can only soar higher after a record that hits the spot as much as this does.
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