AUCTION PROJECT
Genres: World Fusion, Classic Fusion • United States

Jazz has been combined with a wide variety of world music over the years. One could spend hours and hours discussing Stan Getz and Chick Corea's interest in Brazilian music, Dizzy Gillespie's Afro-Cuban breakthroughs, or the way that McCoy Tyner fearlessly incorporated Indian, Middle Eastern, and Asian music on his classic modal albums of the early 1970s. But one thing that hasn't received much attention from the jazz world is Celtic music, and the fact that 2010's The Auction Project is an acoustic post-bop date with a strong Celtic influence (Irish as well as Scottish) certainly sets it apart from other post-bop recordings that were made in 2010. No one will mistake this David Bixler/Arturo O'Farrill CD for an album by the Chieftains; The Auction Project is by no means a straight-ahead Celtic disc. Rather, alto saxman Bixler and pianist O'Farrill (who are joined by violinist Heather Martin Bixler, bassist read more...