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Terry Pack Group

What Happens Now

Symbol Records SR 20050401

Ranging from latin blues and bossas to up-tempo waltzes and straightforward tender ballads, this immediately likable album, like many debuts, showcases a whole variety of bassist Terry Pack's compositional and bandleading skills.

In flautist/saxophonist Ian Price, he's found a sensitive interpreter of his accessible, even catchy melodies (particularly the slower numbers, where Price's mellow tenor tone comes into its own); drummer Dave Storey is brisk and neat; pianist Frances Knight unfussily lyrical; guitarist Phil Hudson a thoughtful soloist.

It is Pack's big, warm bass sound that focuses attention throughout, though, and with discreet percussive touches added by Will Fry and the occasional acoustic-guitar intervention from Enrico Pinna, this is an attractive album of what might be termed (mostly) gentle groove music in a variety of styles and settings, embellished by solos in which the group sound and momentum is clearly more important to the musicians than individualist grandstanding.

A band to watch out for.