Baecastuff

Baecastuff: Out of This World

by C. Michael Bailey
April 1, 2001

Aussie Baecastuff debuts on Naxos Jazz with an Eastern-influenced extravaganza.

Baecastuff, named for an indigenous Australian tobacco bush, is an Aussie sextet that believes in the wide-open electric/acoustic sound of Miles' In a Silent Way. Matt McMahon's Fender Rhodes peppers the soundscape in a way that reminds me of Keith Jarrett during his Miles tenure. Phillip Slater's open-bell further promotes the effect. Out of This World is a carefully textured landscape of tonal colors and hues. The horn team of ...