Rufus Reid with Sullivan Fortner - It's the Nights I Like

The mastery of an instrument or a musical language doesn't necessarily mean that a musician must be frivolous in performance with displays of their masterful technique or engagement in superfluous overplaying. Sometimes it is the restraint that shows the maturity and taste of a performer. Rufus Reid and Sullivan Fortner are musicians who have the easy ability to astonish but show their class in their control.

Of course, Reid has been acknowledged as one of the best bassists in jazz for decades, leaving him nothing more to prove. The heralded young pianist, Sullivan Fortner, has a maturity beyond his years and the pairing of the two allows for music making of the highest caliber. Their duo recording, It's The Nights I Like, shows just what kind of magic can made without resorting to histrionics and letting the music shine.

    1 Always in the Moment
    2 I Can't Explain
    3 Big Foot
    4 Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
    5 It's the Nights I Like
    6 Sophisticated Lady
    7 Sweet Loraine
    8 Reminiscing
    9 The Meddler
    10 The Peacocks
    11 Come Out and Play
    12 Memories of You