Soil & Pimp Sessions

Soil & Pimp Sessions: Pimp Master

by Chris May
August 8, 2006

If Pimp Master sounds like anything that came before it, it sounds like Sonny Clark's Cool Struttin'--but performed by a group of late twentysomething Tokyo musicians who attack the tunes like they've ingested enough speed to affect the outcome of the Superbowl. And they don't fucking care if you know it.

Welcome to gonzo-hard bop. It's fast, it's rowdy and it's in-your-face. On one level it's pure revivalism--the tunes are in the main cranked up hard bop riffs, ...