Cuong Vu, Bound - 48m 1s - Music Database

Tracks & Durations

1. Two	4:29
2. Our Bridge	5:37
3. Still Ragged	7:14
4. Bound	8:26
5. The Drift	9:18
6. Acid Kiss	7:21
7. The Burn	5:30

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Review

You'd imagine that one of America's first jazz musicians born in Vietnam would have a different sound and concept, and Cuong Vu fulfils that expectation. What's more, this trumpeter really wanted to play sax, as his dad did, but his mom mixed up the words for horn--yet he stuck with it! Vu brings on his jazz journey a bit of punk, rock, romantic Miles-ian wah-wah, and wisps of Charles Ives. ("The Burn" fires your imagination like "Fourth of July" and "The Unanswered Question.") On most of the rather melodic (if angular) tracks, Vu floats over Jamie Saft's buzzing piano and spacey keyboards, Stomu Takeishi's electric bass, and Jim Black's savvy kit. Yet Vu can also sting, as on "Two" and "Still Ragged," and he works fat, nasty growls into "The Drift." Most trumpeters begin singing at some career point, if only as a respite for the chops, but Vu strikes early on the title track, wafting his dreamy tenor in a legato love croon à la Chet Baker over the band's hard-sock. Bound veers into new realms of improvisation, and the pacing is fluid and colorful. Nice attention to details starts with Black's rockin' rimshots and pastel shading with tingling bell-tree and mallet-caressed cymbals. Listen to Vu, and watch for him. --Fred Bouchard

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