Album Review: Body and Soul from Alexander McCabe
Album: Body and Soul Artist: Alexander McCabe Label: WAMCO Website: www.amccabemusic.com Body and Soul is Alexander McCabe’s 6th album as a leader. His credits additionally include pianist, saxophonist and composer. Joining McCabe are his frequent collaborators, Paul Odeh on piano, Ugonna Okegwo on bass, and Craig Wuepper on drums. The 6-track CD includes four originals penned by McCabe and his re-worked arrangements of Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" and John Coltrane's "Countdown." Oftentimes, the music takes listeners back to 1960's jazz rooms where lofts and supper clubs were filled with the sounds of traipsing keys and strolling horns cradled in a chassis of steady beats pumping from the bass and drums. Such easy listening bodywork structures McCabe's daydreamy musings along "Elena," named after his niece, and his softly bobbing "If I See Her." It's the type of music that makes audiences fall in love with jazz. T...