# CD review: ARC Trio & The John Daversa Big Band – Arceology: The Music of Msm Schmidt 2022: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2022/06/12/cd-review-arc-trio-the-john-daversa-big-band-arceology-the-music-of-msm-schmidt-2022-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2022-06-12T16:23:33+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Jimmy Haslip’s ARC Trio Joins Forces with the John Daversa Big Band. Interpreting
the Music of German Composer MSM Schmidt.**

Nguyên Lê, Steve Khan, Mike Miller, Oz Noy and Brian Auger among the guest soloists
on ARCeology.

For the past several years, former Yellowjackets bassist and prolific producer Jimmy
Haslip has enjoyed an ongoing working relationship with the Bremen, Germany-based
jazz fusion keyboardist and composer Michael Schmidt (aka MSM Schmidt). While Haslip
played on Schmidt’s 2007 album Transit and 2009’s Destination, he ended up co-producing
2012’s Evolution, 2015’s Utopia and 2017’s Life. They take their chemistry to new
heights on ARCeology: The Music of MSM Schmidt. This dynamic offering finds Haslip
and members of his ARC Trio (keyboardist Scott Kinsey and Hungarian drummer Gergö
Borlai) joining forces with the GRAMMY Award-winning John Daversa Big Band on greatly
expanded versions of previously recorded Schmidt material, along with two brand 
new pieces composed by Kinsey and Schmidt. The result is a powerhouse collection
of polished, swaggering big band fusion along the lines of the Jaco Pastorius Big
Band or The Brecker Brothers’ 2003 collaboration with the WDR Big Band Köln on Some
Skunk Funk.

01.Red and Gold (06:55)
 02.Swing Your Troubles Away (07:46) 03.Quartet (06:17) 
04.Qin Shi (06:08) 05.Si Kitu (09:29) 06.Mirrors (04:41) 07.Clark Kent (06:28) 08.
Falling (06:28)

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