Stuart Hart - Inner Voice (Audio CD, 2000)

The sustained synth wash, hyperactive drumming and funk bass that kick off "Running Out of Words," this album's opening track, might lead you to expect -- perhaps with some dismay -- standard-issue jazz fusion. But when the guitar and sax come burning in with a sharp, partly atonal head, you realize that if this is fusion, it's not the goopy, wanky, 1970s kind. As a composer, Hart is musical enough to write great tunes, but too smart to leave them in the kind of humid setting that can lead to overripening and rot; instead, he keeps things interesting by means of varied tone and rhythm, and he knows how to throw a wrench into the machinery when it's running just a bit too smoothly.
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TRACK LISTINGS

1 Running Out of Words 6:08
2 Ernie's Over 5:52
3 The Green Pedal 5:59
4 First Impressions 4:50
5 Right from the Right 8:03
6 Speaquinox 4:05
7 Toe Nails 4:35
8 Instrumentality 4:31