Dave Guy’s “Still Standing” captures the last days of summer with the warm brass of his horn situated in both jazz and funk worlds. The trumpeter is usually busy playing with The Roots on The Tonight Show and tours. “Still Standing” is from his debut album, Ruby, and it follows the previously shared soulful panache of “Footwork” and “Pinky Ring,” the Donald Byrd-esque “7th Heaven,” and the swinging “Morning Glory.” Guy’s love for footprints of jazz from the past is not nostalgia but inspired playing of the present. The Brooklyn-based Big Crown label releases Ruby on September 20th digitally, on vinyl, cassette, and CD.
