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Jim Casey: Miles Goes Wes

Read "Miles Goes Wes" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Here's a straightforward album with a rather intriguing title --Miles Goes Wes, Texas-bred guitarist Jim Casey's unassuming homage to a pair of jazz icons, Messrs Davis and Montgomery. While the session lays heavy emphasis from end to end on funky backbeats and assertive percussion, Casey strives to nurture interest by varying the group size and instrumentation, traversing the gamut from quartet (Marcus Miller's “Splatch") to nonet (Davis' “So What" and Montgomery's “Angel") and using organist Bobby Sparks to apply splashes ...

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