Jason Smith (Jazz) - Tipping Point: Live at the Jazz Bakery Los Angeles [CD]

A live set from May 2006 featuring bassist Dave Carpenter and Gary Husband, who leaves the kit to Smith and focuses exclusively on keyboards. Tipping Point bristles with rock and fusion energy, yet remains unequivocally a jazz record. Featuring original material alongside Kenny Wheeler and John McLaughlin tunes with a couple of standards thrown in for good measure. Harmonically rich and metrically complex yet equally capable of understatement and nuanced elegance, this trio skews tradition while remaining fully conversant in it. Track listing: Carole's Garden, Way You Look Tonight, Follow Your Heart, Star Bright, Heyoke, Three Lies, Up Up and Away.