“What is it with Walter Smith III and “casual”? The Texas saxophonist’s debut album in 2005 was titled Casually Introducing, and a decade later, on his fourth, he assured us he was Still Casual. For his debut on Blue Note he has gathered that album’s six-strong cast for Return to Casual, on which he restates his qualities as a tenor sax player for our times, his airy tone echoing the past – specifi”
