by Textura
Forward is the first release from Chad McCullough under his own name since 2009’s Dark Wood, Dark Water, but the trumpeter has hardly been dormant. In the eleven years since that debut, he’s issued two albums with the Spin Quartet, five with Belgian pianist Bram Weijters, and played with many others. He now makes an auspicious return as a leader with Forward, a compact, forty-minute set that’s in many ways McCullough’s love letter to Chicago. Read the full review here.