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Dave Weckl - Master Plan release date: 1990 (GRP) Review by Edward Burke DAVE WECKL’s recording career as leader jumped off to a fantastic start with Master Plan. Dave had already established himself as a world class drummer/percussionist touring and recording with CHICK COREA’s fusion-style Elektric Band along with Chick’s straight-ahead Akoustic Band. Weckl’s admirers greeted this CD with high expectations, and Master Plan easily lives up to those expectations. Weckl surrounded himself with greatly talented musicians, including the inimitable multi-instrumentalist JAY OLIVER , tenor saxman MICHAEL BRECKER and Elektric Band colleagues Corea and super-saxman ERIC MARIENTHAL (soprano & alto). Charged pieces range from the funky Oliver/Weckl “Tower of Inspiration” over to the Afro-Cuban-influenced Oliver/Weckl “Festival de Ritmo” to the Brazilian-minded Oliver comped “Auratune.”: a masterpiece delightfully douzed with mind-bending rhythmic displacements . “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise,” finds Weckl forming a trio with pianist Ray Kennedy and bassist Tom Kennedy. MASTER PLAN has indeed surfaced as an essential work, as the concept of rhythmic displacement in fusion composition has been entertainingly employed throughout this wonderful ‘masterful’ work and serves as pioneered inspiration for many albums of like-kind to follow in its footsteps. Credits: Scott Alspach - Trumpet Andy Baltimore - Creative Director Evelyn Brechtlein - Production Coordination Michael Brecker - S
