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Before I got this disc, I knew nothing about drummer David Winogrond. What I do know is, like the Sam Phipps and DJ Bonebrake discs (both also on Wondercap Records) I reviewed earlier, this is a fine slab of jazz. Unlike the Phipps disc, which was recorded in the early ‘80s but clearly uses early ‘60s Coltrane as a touchstone, and unlike the mellowness that vibraphonist Bonebrake employs, Winongrond and his band (featuring Bonebrake and John “Rabbit” Ritchie - appearing courtesy of the “Herman T. Blount Recovery Center” - among others) fuse the last few decades of the sort of “out” jazz that John Zorn and others practiced on the Lower East Side during the ‘80s and early ‘90s with the spirit of the aforementioned Herman T. Blount (aka Sun Ra). |
