Rickey Woodard: California Cooking

After digesting these 10 courses of appertising, spicy, immaculately prepared and server "California Cooking" it will be amazing if you do not feel replete.

Every track here is interesting and there's an overall optimistic and toe taping feel about the entire session. Relaxed, swinging and unpretentious. Rickey comes across as a man with a cheerful outlook on life, but make no mistake about it, he is serious and caring about music! He seems at home with any rhythms-dig his ease with the bossa nova beat on Jake's Place. Zoot Sims shared this ability to adapt to any rhythmic context and swing like hell in any situation.