Don’t worry about Aker Bilk. (Although that two clarinet record with one H Lyttelton showed how good he really was)
This wandered into my Spotify gaze. I probably bought the lp from Dobell’s 77 Charring Cross Road.in 1960 and still think it very fine.
Ed had just finished touring with Louis and Trummy Young so he knew how to make himself heard.
Vic. The Tommy Cooper of Jazz Trombone
Emmet was another of those trumpeters like Roy and Charlie Shavers that could knock down a brick wall just by looking at it.
The other three.. as close to perfect as this style of jazz reaches.
Very well recorded for ‘58.
My favourite jazz period, but you might have guessed.
Poalo Fresu also released the excellent Tempo Di Chet a collection of standards that Chet Baker liked to play and also some originals about or for Chet Baker.
Re: Paulo Fresu - He did an excellent set of releases for Blue Note Italy. Put out on CD - not sure if ever issued on vinyl. I picked up a bundle of them for a fiver each years ago.
I remember seeing him live with his fine quintet about 30 years ago now.
Free to view on YouTube is this fascinating PBS documentary about bassist Ron Carter - apart from the man himself, it features interviews with many jazz legends, current artists and great performance footage - highly recommended.
I am in a minority on this one but I think this is his greatest moment. Recorded in 1970 so he and his band were old men by this stage and there is a reflective and elegiac atmosphere to the album.
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