Patrick Brennan - Soup (Deep Dish). This month’s pleasant surprise, Brennan is a newcomer whose vivid. right-angled alto style summons up Roscoe Mitchell and Jackie McLean, and whose colorful writing for sextet boasts a nodding acquaintance with late-50s Mingus and mid-60s AACM. The antic spirit of Brennan’s ensemble keeps you listening even when the solos falter, which they rarely do. Aside from Brennan, the most promising soloist here is Fred Parcells, a slyly bumptious trombonist.

Francis Davis
Musician - May 1983
Reprinted with permission from Musician Magazine