Album Review: Pathways from Dave Anderson and Mike Wingo
Album: Pathways Artists: Dave Anderson and Mike Wingo Label: Self-Released Website: https://daveandersonmusic.com/home Pathways, the sophomore release from the team of pianist Dave Anderson and percussionist Mike Wingo is laden with contemporary jazz passages. Anderson's flights on the keys travel into ethereal planes as the flexing rhythmic patterns of Wingo's percussion provide a warmth berth for the euphoric jaunts. They produce a spellbinding harmony through a steady flow of improvisations and structured motifs. Their track "The Leprechaun's Jam" is a melodic fusion of bongo-style beats and chamber music-inspired phrasing. The pairing of these two voices is deeply magnetic and charmingly compatible. The dialogue formed between Anderson and Wingo through "Lament" has a natural fluidity, part sobbing and part elevating. The prismatic facets of Anderson's keys illuminating "Perspective" have a calming flicker tha...