When I first wrote about my review of Ben Allison’s “Man Size Safe”, I was listening to an audio-only version but today I managed to find the exact video of the song I was listening to. I hope you enjoy.
Review of Ben Allison’s “Man Size Safe”
Starting us off is bass with a very simple but effective quarter note baseline followed by a very interesting feeling melody. From what I can hear, its a quintet band composed of Upright Bass, Drums, Electric Guitar, Trumpet and Violin.
As the song ends, we have a guitar solo while the bass changes tactics as to how he approaches the chord changes. As his solo ends, we go back to the melody but during the break of the song, we have a very dissonant sounding trumpet solo. This solo ends in a fading out trumpet which leads to a very incredible drum solo.
The drum solo is actually really cool, not gonna lie. At the end of the solo we are greeted back by the same melody but with some embellishments, this time was done by the violinist and then bam, the song ends.