Title: Instrumental Rock with Guests
Review: Veteran Maryland drummer (and real estate appraiser) Carl Hupp has played with EVERYbody, in all sorts of different styles and situations. On this his first solo album be calls in favors from several well-known players including Tony Levin (King Crimson), Stanley Whitaker (Happy The Man), Angelo Cammarata (Zebron) and 18 more...The music is instrumental jazz-rock, perhaps best compared to Bill Bruford or Chad Wackerman or Jeff Berlin. Most tracks feature one of his several guitarist friends -- always high energy and kicking. They do smoking versions of Bruford's "Five G" and Billy Cobham's "Quadrant 4" while the rest are all originals in a similar vein. A few tracks feature horns or harmonica although Carl's powerhouse drumming is never far behind.Overall this is a consistently pleasing set of "pure" music by some of the top sessionmen around.By the way, ignore Amazon's "product description" -- there are no DVDs in this CD. Don't know whose code got crossed there.
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