Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light

"Dave King’s dirty, aggressive, disciplined joy in playing drums conjoins many degrees between swing rhythm and more rigid backbeats. 'Good Old Light' (Sunnyside), by his new, Minneapolis band Dave King Trucking Company, shows him as a generous-bulldog kind of bandleader, with serious ideas about instrumentation and contrast between players’ styles. One of those ideas is Erik Fratzke, who is a puzzle. ... He wrote the most forthright jazz tune on 'Good Old Light,' called 'Night Tram.' ... On the Trucking Company record Mr. Fratzke is something like a timbral ingredient until 'Hawk Over Traffic,' an orderly tune near the end, defined by Mr. King’s medium-tempo, John Bonham-like groove. And when the guitar solo comes in, uh-oh: it’s free, pan-tonal, dissonant, unspooling in wide intervals and impulsive motion, but gradually holding together by triplets and patterns. It’s 90 seconds of strong medicine, hidden deep into the record" (Ben Ratliff, "New CDs," New York Times, 7/12/11).
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