Quentin Coaxum — trumpet Artie Black — tenor sax Stu Mindeman — keys Andrew Vogt — bass Clif Wallace — drums It’s not often one hears a debut album so clean, direct, smooth (but not smooth1), and focused. Young Chicago-based trumpeter Quentin Coaxum’s Current is definitely one of those rare soulfully strong debuts. There’s a “less is more” sense here, that if Coaxum’s songs were...

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