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Day Dream

Duke & Strays Live

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Release Date: October 18, 2024

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1 African Flower (9:52)  
2 Perdido (5:36)  
3 Single Petal of a Rose / Sophisticated Lady (8:09)  
4 U.M.M.G. (7:53)  
5 Lush Life (5:39)  
6 Come Sunday (8:40)  
7 Rockin’ in Rhythm (5:04)  
8 T.G.T.T. (8:25)  
9 Lotus Blossom (5:39)  
10 My Little Brown Book / Take the ‘A’ Train (12:24)  
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In his recent memoir Chasing the Masters, drummer/composer Phil Haynes divides jazz practitioners into two parallel tracks, the traditionalists and the modernists. He sees his own career as an attempt to bridge the two tracks, at once imbibing the lessons of the past while pushing forward into the unexplored future. Those efforts have not always met with the approbation of the jazz cognoscenti, however. “It’s as if modernists and traditionalists share many of the very same heroes,” he writes, “yet draw vastly different lessons from them.” While his adventurous nature and free improvisational instincts would lead many to place Haynes firmly in the modernist camp, his work with the Day Dream trio is evidence of his wide-ranging gifts. The trio borrowed its name from a piece by Duke Ellington, who Haynes, somewhat surprisingly, cites as the prime instigator of the modernist explorers. 

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