On his third solo effort,
Eric Vloeimans employs a similar post-
Miles Davis approach to the trumpet as
Wynton Marsalis. Featuring pointillistic compositions accented by slippery diminished runs,
Bitches and Fairy Tales is a nice drink of fuzzy, straight-ahead jazz with
Vloeimans often adding a little avant-garde triple sec into the mix. While comparable to
Marsalis in his use of operatic bent tones punctuated by the occasional growl,
Vloeimans more often settles into his warm, foggy tone like another trumpeter who had an affinity for the Netherlands,
Chet Baker. Backing
Vloeimans on piano is the Bill Evans-influenced Brit
John Taylor.
Joey Baron on drums and
Marc Johnson on bass round out the group. ~ Matt Collar