Jazz review of 'Orange Peel' by Reuben Wilson

A four-musician band plays this piece: we can find the following instruments: drums (Adrian Harpham), organ (Reuben Wilson), guitar (Robin Macatangay), and trumpet. For the moment, and even if I already listened to this track several time in the past, I am not able to determine to which era this tune belongs. Since it has no electric instruments or structures similar to pop music I would say it does not belong to electric or pop fusion (and it is clearly not chaotic enough to be free jazz). For the moment I would classify it either in cool or jazz. But let's see how the review of the tune can help us define the area.

The beginning of the song is left to the organ, which plays four measure of a quite

This first solo is really appealing since tension keeps on being created and released. In addition to the rhythmic section, the organ itself plays an important part in this building of tension. By holding a bunch of key very close to each others, the organ player creates disturbing sounds. And thanks to the characteristics of his instrument, he can rapidly jump to a very clear short melody that he repeats over and over for 10 seconds, and stop suddenly.

Next, the guitar joins in. The guitarist is retaining his sounds by holding the strings in a way that make the guitar sound kind of shy. This third element has two effects on the beginning of the piece; first it helps building this driving feeling since the texture makes us feel something is about to happen. Also it gives a little more structure as the second beat is accentuated with the guitarist emphasizing the sound.

At the beginning of the 17th measure, the fourth and last instrument finally joins in. The trumpet players (he seems to use a shell because the sounds are quite short and specific) begins to play the given melody, accompanied by the right hand of the organ player (whereas his left hand is used to play the bass loop, the drummer and the guitarist keep on playing the rhythmic part). The whole band plays the given melody for a couple of measures, and we finally reach the end of the introduction with the all band playing together. Une minute de passé

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