Michael Anthony, Terry Burns - Try and Catch Me (2025)

Tracklist

01. Ladybird
02. Four on Six
03. Angel Eyes
04. The Visit
05. Oleo
06. Tricrotism
07. What's New
08. Try and Catch Me
09. Whims of Chambers
10. Footprints

Guitarist Michael Anthony and bassist Terry Burns have a few things in common. Both are virtuosic musicians and well-respected teachers who left successful careers—Anthony in Los Angeles, Burns in Minneapolis—moving to New Mexico to help out family. Both love and possess an encyclopedic familiarity with the jazz canon and have rubbed shoulders with some of its finest practitioners. Both were happy to find a lively jazz scene in the Albuquerque–Santa Fe corridor, where they have established themselves as top-line players. Together, they take no prisoners on their new release, Try & Catch Me. Inspired by the renowned Joe Pass/Neils-Henning Ørsted Pederson duo, the Anthony/Burns duo delivers an engaging conversation on tunes that were familiar to Pass and Pedersen, and it is no less elevated a conversation than the Pass/Pedersen offerings—with a good bit livelier back-and-forth and a hefty helping of secret chords. Highlights includes their exuberant take on Wes Montgomery’s “Four on Six,” the romantic “Angel Eyes,” a lively excursion on Pat Martino’s “The Visit,” the burning title track (a Michael Anthony arrangement based on Pass’s “Catch Me”), and the swinging “Whims of Chambers,” but every one of the 10 tracks offers something to raise a smile and set a foot atapping.

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