A schooled
trumpeter, Gabriel Johnson has added a touch of jazz to the soundtracks of such
recent Clint Eastwood films as Invictus
and Changeling. On Fra_ctured, Johnson sets the cool,
lonesome, Miles Davis-inspired tone of his horn against moody and melodic
synthesized backdrops. The result conjures switched-on ’70s progressive rock
along with percolating electro-funk and copy-and-paste Pro Tools jazz.
Obviously in the school
of Miles, Fra_ctured suggests a direction the jazz
great might have taken had he lived into the 21st century.
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