This CD features percussionist
Ray Mantilla's the Jazz Tribe, a sextet with altoist
Bobby Watson, trumpeter
Jack Walrath, pianist
Ronnie Mathews, bassist
Curtis Lundy, and drummer
Victor Lewis.
Mantilla's percussion infuses the largely straight-ahead music (three originals by
Mantilla, two by Watson, and one apiece from the other four players, plus
Tadd Dameron's "Good Bait") with Latin rhythms. The music swings and Watson in particular is in exciting form for the advanced hard bop outing. ~ Scott Yanow