Untold Stories

Ah! The hard bop quintet! The apotheosis of modern jazz is well represented here under the hands of leader/trumpeter Mark Buselli and his team of Danny Walsh/sax, Steve Allee/p, Jeremy/b and Steve Houghton/dr. The tunes are composed by either Allee or Buselli, sans a nifty reading of the rarely heard Ellington piece �Angelica.� Allee�s pieces such as �What About Me?� and �Slider� have snapping rhythms and display the composer�s sleek touch on the ivories. Walsh�s tenor on the pulsating �Untold Stories� and the rollicking bluesy �Istanbul� are high cholesterol gems, and Buselli�s trumpet sears on �Claude� while caressing on the gentle �Jetstream.� If this music sounds so easy to make, how come no one seems to get it right very often? A treat!