Rood, Mike
MIKE ROOD, 2011, CD
Instrument: Guitar
Issue: 17.3
Jazz Ruler Type: Fusion
Performance: 4
Sound: 3
Score: 
O’s Notes: Mike is a young guitarist who wrote all of the music, arranged and produced The Desert and the City. The mild jazz-fusion program is all-original music that has influences from Scofield and Metheny. We enjoyed all of the music especially “Dark Star”; “The Gate”, with a nice by bassist Alex Spreading; the warmth of Mike Bjella’s sax blended with Rood on “Uncertainty”; and “Undeniable” surfacing drummer Goh Izawa. Balance is a key to enjoyable listening on this outing. Energetic jazz-fusion minus distortion and congestion makes it work!
Publicist: Jazz Promo Services
