

Trumpeter Dave Douglas can go far out with the best of them, so it’s a surprise to find that this tribute to the avant-garde art movement is so consistently lyrical. Douglas’ tone is reliably dazzling, whether brassy (“Art of Reinvention”) or mellow (“Transparent”), while Frank Woeste’s Fender Rhodes chops and drummer Clarence Penn’s exquisite pulses make “Noire et Blanche” an unusually crisp fusion composition. Instead of upending listeners’ conceptions of beauty like the Dada movement, the original tunes here are easily approachable.