Scott Dubois - Autumn Wind (CD)

Release Date: 10/27/17Scott DuBois has managed to do the impossible in bringing sound to season to sound. Allaboutjazz.comIn a period in which the boundaries between musical genres are rapidly dissolving, there still exist major differences between what we still call a “jazz” band and those of other musical classifications.Perhaps the most significant of these is that longevity in a jazz ensemble will nearly always have an entirely positive effect on the music. That’s clearly a huge factor when listening to the high-caliber international quartet put together over a decade ago by the New York-based guitarist-composer Scott DuBois. It features the in-demand NYC double bassist Thomas Morgan, the virtuoso German multi-reedsman Gebhard Ullmann and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood. In 2015 DuBois' quartet released Winter Light. The distinguished UK-based author Richard Williams remarked that Winter Light, “evokes the example of Claude Monet in his desire to capture the shifting light in