Dream of the Serpent Dog - Review
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Sunday, January 18, 1998
Local: Jazz
BOBBY E., CLINT HOOVER AND JIM CHENOWETH, "Dream of the Serpent Dog"
(Mr. Bipps)
One of the overlooked gems of local recording in 1997, "Dream of the Serpent
Dog" is exotic, swinging, warm and resonant. The CD suggests Parisian bistros, treks
across North Africa, a Mediterranean cruise or a nap on a beach in Brazil -- anything but
the lake cabins and hot dishes here in Minnesota. Hoover plays masterful chromatic
harmonica, in the tradition of Toots Thielemans. Chenoweth adds full-bodied jazz bass.
Bobby E. serves up his own idiosyncratic mix of folk, blues, bristling swing and chamber
poetics on guitar. All three write beautiful, engaging themes. And Max Santiago tosses in
creative and complementary beats, deftly using congas, bongos, triangle, trap set, a
percussion tree and the edge of his cymbals. -- Tom Surowicz, Minneapolis
writer
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