{"id":18670,"date":"2020-04-26T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=18670"},"modified":"2020-04-27T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:22:27","slug":"album-review-dave-stryker-blue-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/album-review-dave-stryker-blue-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Dave Stryker &#8212; Blue Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18671\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dave_stryker_blue_soul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dave_stryker_blue_soul.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dave_stryker_blue_soul-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Dave Stryker\u2019s a busy guy. In 2014 he released <i>Eight Track<\/i>, a sort of conceptually unified collection of covers, non-jazz tunes rendered in the jazz idiom and featuring his electric guitar and some tasty vibraphone. Even though that set was something like his 18<sup>th<\/sup> album, Stryker seems to have felt he hit a kind of groove: he\u2019d revisit the concept on three more Eight Track volumes, the latter two reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/hundred-word-reviews-for-april-2019-jazz\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/05\/holiday-music-for-2019\/\">here<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>But Stryker has more on his mind, as evidenced by his latest release, <i>Blue <\/i><i>S<\/i><i>oul<\/i>. Fronting the impressive Cologne, Germany outfit the WDR Big Band, he digs into a similar yet different concept. <i>Blue Soul<\/i> again finds Stryker bending songs outside of jazz into his style, but here the style is thrilling big band jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Webb\u2019s classic for Glen Campbell, \u201cWichita Lineman\u201d gets the Stryker-plus-big-band treatment, as does Prince\u2019s \u201cWhen Doves Cry.\u201d Both work surprisingly well; the Prince tune gives Styker room to spin out some extended and speedy lead work. Less of a stretch are a pair of Marvin Gaye numbers, the title track from <i>Trouble Man<\/i> and \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On.\u201d The latter is soft and soulful, with understated Hammond organ by Billy Test.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything is jazz reinvention here, though. Stanley Turrentine\u2019s \u201cStan\u2019s Shuffle\u201d closes the set, and it\u2019s one of several cuts to showcase the saxophone work of Bob Mintzer, who gets a co-credit on the album.<\/p>\n<p>Subtlety and fire appear in equal measure on this spirited outing; it won\u2019t surprise me a bit if Stryker decides to continue with future projects in a similar vein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Stryker\u2019s a busy guy. 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