Chris Lightcap

• DIGISLEEVE EDITION

As much as bassist, composer and bandleader Chris Lightcap had often tugged at the limits of jazz with compositions and arrangements that often went in modern, avant-garde and fusion directions, he usually managed to stay tethered to a post-bop sensibility. His Bigmouth supergroup was his vehicle for that creative outlet of his and that project has recently reaped him some well-deserved accolades. But with Superette, jazz — as well as his acoustic bass — is pretty much tossed out of the window for something completely different.

For starters, you wouldn’t expect to cue up a Lightcap album and the first song you hear is a three-minute tune that sounds like it could have come from the Ventures (“Selector”), but that’s only the opening salvo in showing other sides of Lightcap.

PERSONNEL:

• JONATHAN GOLDBERGER, electric guitar
• CURTIS HASSELBRING, electric guitar
• CHRIS LIGHTCAP, bass
• DAN RIESER, drums

• GUESTS MUSICIANS:
• Nels Cline: electric guitar, lap steel guitar
• John Medeski: keyboards.

TRACKS:

• 01. Selector
• 02. She Walked In
• 03. Far Away Planet
• 04. While You Were Out
• 05. Djali
• 06. Calling on Cars
• 07. Ace of Spades
• 08. Light Trails
• 09. All Come to Meet Her
• 10. Frozen Bread; Birds.