David Champagne: Come Before Winter

David Champagne plays a clean and bopping trumpet, ranging from Freddie Hubbard to Kenny Dorham on a post bopping album with Michael Deasetb-barsax, Todd Delguidice/as-ts, Scott Giddens/p, Dennis Marks/b and John Lumpkin II/dr. Champagne’s Hub tones sparkle with Giddens on the fiery and intense “Nicodemus” while he’s honey’d sweet with Marks on “Blue Room”. The horns get velvety on the silky “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” and Delguidice’s tenor flexes it’s muscles on an earthy “Wade In The Water”. The rhythm section provides a hip New Orleans pulse for the street smarts of “Departure” and Champagne leads a rich sermon with Giddens leading the choir on the gospel’d “You Dig”. Hip horns.