“Bus Ride,” the opening track on Marco Benevento’s debut studio album Invisible Baby, is instrumental post-jazz done right. Huge, crashing drums, cavernous bass, thundering piano, and banjo blend together, gather momentum, and rise toward dramatic crescendo. It’s an urgent, passionate number from a trio maximizing its individual talents and firing on all cylinders. For Invisible Baby, that trio consists of keyboardist Benevento (Benevento/Russo Duo), bassist Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey), and alternating drummers Matt Chamberlain (Critters Buggin) and Andrew Barr (The Slip).
