Artist: Victor de Boo Trio

'.......clean-cut, the flying Dutchman who are invading the new jazz are musical madcaps who mix cocktails of the logical and surreal.......

Drummer Victor de Boo's languidly bluesy date marks a pleasing exursion for a seldom-heard combo with bassist ( guitarist VdB ) Anton Goudsmit and trombonist Wolter Wierbos. Playing in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam and recorded live for VPRO radio, they rip, rig and never panic over nine pieces, settling into unsettling grooves that chew at blues traces. " Pork " is a lean chop off Charles Mingus " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, " and " Boom " - with Wierbos wacko intro of sackbut stutter-mutter - plays fast and loose.

Track after track, the tree let things slowburn organically, as " Do The Fac. " heats from kindling to woodchopper's bonfire. Even on the few tracks - fervid set-closers and rambunctious " Mr. B. " - where they snake into up-tempo, they're in no hurry.'

**** DOWN BEAT June 2002 - Fred Bouchard