Aaron Diehl - The Vagabond - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Wingo is a busy man. In the years since the of his last record as Ola Podrida, he's written and recorded soundtracks for several movies including Take Shelter (winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2011), MUD (starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon), and Prince Avalanche (starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch and co-composed with Explosions in the Sky).

In fashion circles, the adjective InchbespokeInch denotes custom-made suits and shirts and signifies the person who In designs and constructs them. On The Bespoke Man's Narrative, his brilliant Mack Avenue Records debut, pianist Aaron Diehl extrapolates this notion to matters of musical invention.

Widely lauded for his 2012 Mack Avenue debut, The Bespoke Man's Narrative, 29-year-old pianist-composer Aaron Diehl follows solidly with the 2015 Space, Time, Continuum. On The Bespoke Man's Narrative, Diehl presented original music drawing on antecedent bandleader-composers like John Lewis and Duke Ellington for strategies that facilitated individualistic performances from his unit of A-list peers. On Space, Time, Continuum, Diehl assembles a pan-generational ensemble of masters. Joining his core trio of bassist David Wong and drummer Quincy Davis in different configurations are the iconic tenor saxophonist-composer Benny Golson and the magisterial baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley, both 85 years young; the 39-year-old underground tenor saxophone giant Stephen Riley, and the rising star trumpeter Bruce Harris.