{"id":21269,"date":"2021-07-14T05:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2021-07-09T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:39:48","slug":"album-review-wrd-the-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/album-review-wrd-the-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: WRD — The Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Far more often than not, the term supergroup<\/em> is hype. Even when it isn\u2019t use of the word can create unfairly high expectations. The members of Blind Faith understood that, and named their (short lived) group thusly. But in the world of jazz, a different sensibility took hold long ago. Artists receive co-billing, and get together in one-off, ad hoc or otherwise temporary, informal aggregations to do their thing. And in that context, the hype is less present, and the focus can instead stay where it belongs: on the music.<\/p>\n

WRD is organist Robert Walter, guitarist Eddie Roberts and Adam Deitch on drums. Roberts, you may well know, is the guitarist in The New Mastersounds; he\u2019s also the prime mover behind the new vinyl label Color Red. Walter is a found of Greyboy Allstars, and Deitch has played with Lettuce, Average White Band and other tasty outfits.<\/p>\n

With that bit of introduction, you\u2019re likely hip to a general idea of what The Hit<\/i> sounds like. It\u2019s an organ trio with Walter doing the bass pedals thing on his B3. In the grand tradition of in-the-moment jazz sensibility, the albums is the product of a pair of single-day sessions, one in 2018 and another in 2019.<\/p>\n

If you wandered into the grooviest nightclub with an instrofunkjazzboogaloo band blowing, it would sound like The Hit<\/i>. Joined on two tracks (\u201cChum City\u201d and \u201cHot Honey\u201d) by tenor saxophonist Nick Gerlach, the band sizzles with an interplay that\u2019s soulful, natural, spirited and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 tuneful. They\u2019re having fun and pushing the limits of what they can do, but they\u2019re also keeping one foot planted firmly in accessibility. That makes The Hit<\/i> live up to its name in spirit if not in chart action.<\/p>\n

Help it along on the latter count by picking up a copy, won\u2019t you? You shall not be disappointed. (And yeah, WRD’s a supergroup.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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