Mike Smith Quintet – The Traveler

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Mike Smith Quintet – The Traveler
Delmark DE 462
Compact Disc

“This album is the closest to how we play now. The band started out as a ‘Cannonball’ band, Playing a lot of Cannon’s material,” Mike Smith says, referring to one of his chief influences, alto great Cannonball Adderley – the other is Charlie Parker. “Now we’re doing our own tunes, being contemporary but still straight-ahead acoustic, playing swinging music with advanced harmonies.”