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Emerging from the depths of the jazz jungle is a cunning keyboardist, Greg Spero, with his own interpretations of Radiohead and Miles Davis selections, thus the title, “Radio Over Miles”. This album overall features live workings of Spero’s concept to marry the trailblazing jazz influence of Miles and alternative music via Radiohead.
The track listing has 6 songs of very explorative arrangements, which include Corey Wilkes (trumpet), Junius Paul (bass), and Makaya McCraven (drums) for all selections, with the exception of “Exit Music For A Film”, which replaces Paul and Wilkes for Tim Seisser (bass) and De’Sean Jones (Sax).
The performances are built with energy and intrigue, and have very phenomenal moments of release from all of the personnel. Although the ideas move with patience and development, the pace might challenge casual music listeners, whereas the advanced music listener will appreciate the musical context.
“Sly” is a great go‐to selection for it’s overall efficiency in performance, charisma, and production. “Blue in Green” has a nice odd‐metric touch, and gives serious jazz heads a dose of their medication. “Yesterdays” also has a nice union of Radiohead‐ feel to a Miles staple, although the tail end goes into Michael Jackson/Stevie Wonder jam‐land.
If you’re into Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Soulive, Eldar, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis, and Radiohead (of course), then you will get a well‐deserved treat from a rising force in the spectrum of progressive music.
‐William Kurk
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