Hamid Drake - drum kit & frame drum
Nobu Ozaki - bass
Valid Records 2007
It's almost too easy to focus on Chicago and New York when thinking about jazz music "made in USA". In which case this album serves as a good reminder of a place called New Orleans, so crucial to the jazz history, so painfully experienced in the last years. Recorded December 2005, shortly after the Katrina, this album's story is much more about the place and the people who create it than your regular comfy studio session.
