Dave Stryker

Personnel: Dave Stryker (g), Steve Slagle (as, ss), Ed Howard (b) & Victor Lewis (d).

Tracks: 1. Mozone , 2. Boogaloo 7, 3. Doubleblue, 4. I Love's You Porgy, 5. The Great Divide, 6. Baba Marta, 7. Muddy Waters, 8. The Chaser 9. Passing Giant.

Recorded live at the Jazz Standard, New York, on March 2 & 3, 2005.

Dave and Steve Slagle have recorded a lot together, but this is their first live CD. It features almost all new music, and is their first with Ed Howard on bass and Victor Lewis on drums. At first they had planned to use the Jazz Standard gig to work out the new material, and then go into the studio, but Dave called Steve one day and said "Hey why don't we just record the two nights live?" So the rest is history...

"With a whole sheaf of new tunes to work over, guitarist Dave Stryker and saxophonist Steve Slagle went into New York's ironically named Jazz Standard club for this one -- ironic in that there is barely one standard on the disc. The two have been playing together for nearly 20 years; their mutual telepathy is obvious in the tightly knit way they mix it up...Zip to the end of the disc for the most interesting tune, Slagle's tip of the cap to the recently departed Elvin Jones ("Passing Giant")." - AMG