Fusion label Abstract Logix, which played host to the newly formed New Universe Festival last November in Raleigh, North Carolina, will issue a two-disc commemorative highlights package on July 19 featuring John McLaughlin, Lenny White, Alex Machacek, Zakir Hussain and Jimmy Herring of Widespread Panic, among many others.
A standout moment on Abstract Logix Live 2010 finds White’s Anamoly band — guitarist Tom Guarna, bassist Richie Goods and keyboardist Vince Evans — welcoming Herring as guitar performer for two tracks, including a scalding update of Joe Henderson’s “Gazelle.”
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White and Goods begin in a kind of friendly tussle, before Herring and Guarna launch a tandem assault on everything you knew about “Gazelle.” Evans plays counter to this billowing storm, moving into a swinging, almost impish groove, even as White starts to pound with a more insistent focus. But all of that is subsumed by Herring and Guarna’s aggressive call-and-response, a solo sequence that boasts this amp-melting intelligence. Here’s how galvanizing their twin guitar excursion ends up being: When the group finally moves back into Henderson’s base-line groove, the track almost sounds pedestrian — despite some thunderous fills by White. And that’s saying something.
Also included on Abstract Logix Live 2010: Human Element (featuring keyboardist Scott Kinsey, bassist Matt Garrison, percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan); guitarist Wayne Krantz and bassist Anthony Jackson; and Indian composter Ranjit Barot.
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