Financial Time Review 1/31/09
5
By lizner
Dark Key Music *****
"The latest album from the magisterial drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts features a knock-your-socks-off all-star quartet with Terrence Blanchard and Branford Marsalis as the trumpet/saxophone front-line and bassist Christian McBride acting as lynchpin. Watts is a one-man percussion ensemble, shoe-horning a loose-limbed pulse into the tightest of time-keeping. The tension created is truly propulsive, whirling through blues, contemporary swing and a beautiful ballad."
