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The New York-based team of guitarist Tom Dempsey and bassist Tim Ferguson has been playing as a duo over the course of the past twenty years. It is, indeed, a shame that knowledge of the quality of this music appears to be a state secret.
Their collaborative What's Going On? provides not only a keen display of their playing ability, but quite a diverting set list. The pair opens with Hank Jones' "Interface," then slide into Marvin Gaye's 1970s R&B hit "What's Going On?"--a tune meaningful to both musicians as an ecological warning. The traditional spiritual, "Deep River," follows and, in turn, leads into Billy Strayhorn's "Isfahan...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Michael P. Gladstone
