Trad jazz doesn’t often get a look in among these crumpled, well thumbed pages. Maybe it should more with great releases like this and another earlier in the year, Moon Beans.
But like another girl, another planet “I think I’m on another world with you” on this one as the level of traddiness on a scale of 1 to 10 is a hundred! Recorded in late 2012 at Dizzy’s Club in New York The Wonderful Word of Louis Armstrong is the third release in Blue Engine’s Jazz Call for Freedom series – see a recent review of We The People that’s part of these chin strokers themed very loosely around ideas of democracy in America.
Wynton says about Louis Armstrong: “Even a cursory examination of Pops’ example encourages us to chart our own unique paths through the ever changing landscape of American possibilities. Momentum, swing, was Louis Armstrong’s business. In that, he is without peer.”
Players here with Wynton are trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, trombonist Chris Crenshaw, reedists Victor Goines and Vince Giordano (who plays the rare bass sax and tuba), violinist Andy Stein, banjo player/guitarist Ken Salvo, pianist Dan Nimmer, bassist Carlos Henriquez and drummer Ali Jackson. It’s joyous stuff.
- Wynton returns to Ireland with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for a run of Dominic Reilly promoted dates this summer in Dublin and Limerick City after a successful first ever appearance on the auld sod last year.
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