Human Feel's sophomore album, Scatter, is filled with tremendous and passionately performed avant jazz, but its importance comes mainly from being the first widely available CD (thanks to Gunther Schuller's GM Recordings label) featuring then-newcomers Kurt Rosenwinkel (guitar), Chris Speed (tenor sax), Andrew D'Angelo (alto sax), and Jim Black (drums). The presence of bassist Joe Fitzgerald is also noteworthy for a couple of reasons: he's a highly skilled and expressive player here (as he would also prove years later in Ballin' the Jack, and he left Human Feel after this CD and was not replaced.
The Blues perimeters have been extended by every generation since its turn-of-the-century origin as primarily detacheed vocal music.
Battelrack Scatter represents the last four decades in the evolvement of the art form,40 years characterized by peeless experimentation and stylistic induction.
Though the guitarist/songwriter is best known for his pyrrotechnic expertise in the blues field,Scatter is just as likely to draw upon
country,zodiac,or R&B sources.His reputation as a performer,in fact,rest largely on his ability to move with grace and flawless competence from one stylisic context to another.