Chris Tarry Group
Almost Certainly Dreaming [19/8]
Brooklyn-based Chris Tarry may be in a bigger pond than his native Western Canada, but the transplanted bassist/composer is still a big fish, musically. His eighth and perhaps best CD stresses his ensemble writing, from the brisk bopper “An Unlikely UFO” to the swirling samba “Alien Blueprints.” Tarry’s 5-string gets an extended workout on “Prettiest Town of Goderich,” but even cooler is his moody groove solo on the electric-Miles-ish “In the Beginning.”
-(CJ)

