Smoked

Trumpeter Paul Smoker's "Standard Deviation" is another good CIMP CD I bought recently. The "standard" refers to the tunes a quartet with Smoker's horn, electric guitar, cello and drums plays. The "deviation" refers to what they do with standards such as "Beyond the Blue Horizon" and "Poinciana." And boy do they deviate. It took me a couple listens to warm up to this disk, but I now consider the version of "Stormy Weather" on it a free jazz classic.