Jimi Hendrix Would’ve Loved This
The Dave Wilson Quartet actually has five guys if you count John Mayer’s percussionist Lenny Castro on half the tracks. When Even Goes East takes its title from the days Wilson was a New York City cab driver and the Manhattan grid had—and still has—the even-numbered streets, indeed, going east, and the odd-numbered streets going west. Saxophonist-Composer-Producer Wilson writes four of 10 but the six covers are the news. Final mixes were conducted at Trading 8s Recording Studio in Paramus. So on his eighth album, while still gigging 120 times a year, and owning his own musical instrument business buying and selling vintage brass and woodwinds, he’s chosen to rearrange, take apart, and put back together hits by Glen Campbell, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. With a piano trio behind him, and remembering the lessons taught to him by the legendary sax man Joe Lovano with whom he studied, songs like “Wichita Lineman,” “Fire” and “The Fool On The Hill” never sounded like this