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May 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band: Soul Conversations
Ulysses Owens Jr. Soul Conversations Outside in Music Ulysses Owens Jr. is an exciting and in-demand drummer – he’s backed the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Elling and Christian McBride. He’s made a small handful of dynamic records as a leader – including the impressive, conceptual – political – statement Songs of Freedom and he […]Archive
March 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Ed Palermo Big Band: The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III – Run For Your Life
Ed Palermo Big Band The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III: Run For Your Life Sky Cat / CD Baby The Ed Palermo Big Band is a proper big band – all the horns! – but they love nothing more than taking classic rock and pop tunes and making some hybrid/novelty work out of them. The […]Archive
August 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 65
Buddy Morrow And His Orchestra, Big Band Beatlemania (1964) Maybe my Beatlemania streak was shining deep on that day…I saw this and had to have it and do I need it? Fuck no! But do I have it anyway. Hell yes! Actually, the guy in the shop goes, “that one must be a freebie” since […]Archive
June 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ruthie Foster Big Band: Live At The Paramount
Ruthie Foster Big Band Live At The Paramount BLUE CORN MUSIC (ORCH) Ruthie Foster has been releasing great gospel and blues music across the last three decades – always with hints of pop-song writing, jazz and folk too –if Cassandra Wilson is “jazz” but branching out to see and gather from there, then Foster is […]Archive
June 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 110
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Sing Sing Sing [Single] (1975) Something like this pops out at you and you grab it. A fiver. Done deal. A mono version of one of the most famous Benny Goodman staples – well three, really but the side A lead single is the one right. And I guess I […]Archive
April 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 127
Stan Kenton, Adventures in Jazz (1961) Stan Kenton – arranger, composer, bandleader, performer – great arranger, great bandleader and a terrific player. Lots of examples, lots of great – great – work – but I only have this on vinyl (and I had some compilations on CD). I have no idea where I got this […]Archive
February 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Buddy Rich Big Band: Just In Time – The Final Recording
The Buddy Rich Big Band Just In Time – The Final Recording Gearbox He was Baby Traps; almost a circus freak, playing drums at 18 months old, a star by the age of four and from vaudeville and circus tricks to the golden era of the big band and to backing Sinatra – or Sinatra […]Archive
December 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 242 – Michael Houstoun & The Rodger Fox Big Band, Wellington, 2015
An intriguing musical collaboration – and one that has worked so they’ve repeated it – and when I say repeated it, it’s always a little different. But the classically trained pianist and the big-band leader and trombonist really do find some strange alchemy – on record and in performance. I’ve seen them a few times […]Archive
November 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Harry Connick Jr: True Love – A Celebration of Cole Porter
Harry Connick Jr. True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter Verve Harry Connick Jr. is a musical master; wizard. Beautiful singer, great pianist, dab-hand at the arranging and such an ear and feel and flow to it all. He has made it look and sound easy – but that’s what happens when you’re a child […]Archive
September 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 252
Sid Phillips & His Band, Squeakin’ Shoes/Basin Street Blues [78] (1954) I bought a few 78s just to have – for the look and feel of them. I bought a gramophone a few years later, one of those replica-ones; it worked. Still works. I’ve just given it to my folks to store/display. I’ve run out […]Archive
September 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman