22-12-2010, 14:42
Nathan Eklund Trip To The Casbah 2009
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Houston, we have found the sweet spot. This is very good stuff, a pianoless quintet with trumpet/sax/guitar leading the way. While Eklund is not the most explosive blower or electric soloist, he once again proves that crafting creative & engaging compositions more than makes up for those deficits ("deficits" isn't really the correct term, because Eklund is a more than capable blower.) It's very easy to listen to his albums. And very easy to like them.
![[Image: 0000735889_350.jpg]](http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/007/358/0000735889_350.jpg)
Houston, we have found the sweet spot. This is very good stuff, a pianoless quintet with trumpet/sax/guitar leading the way. While Eklund is not the most explosive blower or electric soloist, he once again proves that crafting creative & engaging compositions more than makes up for those deficits ("deficits" isn't really the correct term, because Eklund is a more than capable blower.) It's very easy to listen to his albums. And very easy to like them.

