Music is not sports. Music is not competition. And yet there are parallels between music and sports that can be drawn. With so much good stuff out there, music does compete for your time, for your attention, for your money, just as surely as baseball teams fight for berths in a pennant race. A few recent CDs bring this idea to mind.
Many folks root for the bands involved.
Still, these releases are not going to be in the running when the playoffs for the better discs of the year begin. This despite the collective talent, despite the promise for the future. Terryston Chawn Kyan plays sax, mandolin and organ. Jeff Light plays trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, and harmonica. Joining them are Nate Edmunds on vocals and rhythm guitar, Brad Haas on bass, Paul Miller on percussion, Jeff Roberge on drums.