Listening to Ann Arbor band Sole Transit’s debut CD, it’s hard to believe that the group’s five members are all teens. They play with a confidence and skill beyond their years, showing influences from the worlds of jazz, rock and funk.
On a grey, chilly Saturday morning in Burns Park, a muffled, soul-fueled tune echoes along Westminster Road—as if someone is playing a record in their house. To a passerby, the sound would be almost identical to that of a record, but after a short while, it stops somewhat abruptly and the different instruments fizzle into silence separately. This is no record– this a band. This is Sole Transit. And if they hadn’t stopped the song in the middle, you would have been fooled.
