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The configuration may be conventional, but Reinvention is the perfect title for The Dixon- Rhyne Project's debut. Sax/organ/guitar/drums quartets date back to the 1950s and organist Melvin Rhyne brings direct cred to this group, having played on some in the late 1950s and early 1960s including Boss Guitar (Riverside, 1963) and The Wes Montgomery Trio (Riverside, 1959). But the rest of this group--most notably co-leader/saxophonist Rob Dixon--consists of relative youngsters for whom the music Rhyne made in his youth is a reference point, not a strict definer. Reinvention owes some to the soul jazz of decades past; equally it's part of the jazz-centric jam band of Greyboy All-Stars, Soulive and MMW...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: John Kelman
