Dan Vigden

Dan Vigden and the Boston World Jazz Project: Beautiful Love - 2nd Edition

by AAJ Staff
January 21, 2003

Combining some of the area’s brightest jazz stars in a collection which stretches and ocassionally leans outside the realms of jazz (often to great result), Boston World Jazz Project features drummer Dan Vigden and a rotating roll of his musical friends. Opening with the brass-splashed title track, the album soon finds Vigden smacking away on Dizzy Gillespie’s “Woody and You." Kicking in with a booming piano intro, Johnny Mercer’s “Autumn Leaves" falls into instant recognition as soon as Wayne Escoffery’s ...