People Like Us

People Like Us: Believe It

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1999

For people like us who prefer their modern mainstream Jazz fresh and inventive, there’s People Like Us, a superbly synchronized and consistently enterprising quartet led by pianist Joel Forrester, featuring the wonderful baritone saxophonist Claire Daly and securely anchored by bassist Dave Hofstra and drummer Denis Charles who died in March ’98 after 23 years as Forrester’s dependable accompanist. Believe It, this is an enormously talented foursome whose lack of name recognition shouldn’t cause one to hesitate for a moment ...