Vu has been a member of the Pat Metheny Group for the last four years, which took him from the relative obscurity of New York’s so-called Downtown scene to the attention of the jazz world through international tours and his appearance on two Metheny albums, “Speaking of Now” and “The Way Up”.
Now he makes his debut on the immaculately produced Italian label Auand and continues in the direction suggested by his earlier albums – 2000’s “Bound” and 2001’s “Come Play With Me” – to define his own subversive take on contemporary jazz.
Full of elegant flourishes (the title track) and neurotic impulses (“Expressions of a Neurotic Impulse”), he uses Bill Frisell’s command of the freaky end of the guitar to powerful effect, and then delights in contrasting the mayhem with own elegant, legato melodies and improvisation.
On all six Vu originals, the trumpeter displays great assurance and an easy command of his instrument.
Right from the opening there is less straining for effect than his earlier work; here there is no impatience to make a point, more a mature inclination to let the music make its own effect in its own time.
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