In a guest appearance, Jamaican guitar king Ernest Ranglin picks out a tasty tune that downyard might be akin to hearing George Benson in Dub .
Every track is a delightful and sometimes surreal melange of aural surprises.
A tad more straight-ahead, French trumpeter Erik Trufazz and his quartet make their American debut here with a terrific collection of original tunes culled from three European releases they recorded for Blue Note since 1997. In A Silent Way done up junglist style. Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved.