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Label: NAGEL HEYER 098
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Tracks: Undecided; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; Blue And Sentimental; I’ll See You In My Dreams; Moten Swing; Lady Be Good; Medley: Echoes Of Spring & All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm; One O’Clock Jump; If I Had You; I Would Do Most Anything For You; Lester Leaps In Artists: Randy Reinhart, trumpet, trombone; Jesper Thilo, tenor sax, clarinet, vocals; Rossano Sportiello, piano; Rudolf “Pluto” Kemper, guitar; Nico Gastreich, bass; Moritz Gastreich, drums Recorded live on October 10, 2004 at Birdland Jazzclub, Hamburg, Germany. ”THIS CENTENARY TRIBUTE to Count Basie is happily much more than a well-intentioned repertory project. Having jazz musicians recreate famous recordings can be exhilarating but is more often an odd expenditure of creative energies. Even better, this tribute is not restricted to long versions of One O’Clock Jump and Jumpin’ At The Woodside. What this band has done, lightly and politely, as Louis Armstrong said, is to tip their hats to a musical way of thinking and feeling epitomized by the Basie band and its smaller spin offs in the great prewar period. This sextet plays in the great tradition but levitates it with their own inventiveness, which is what Basie, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones and the others did as a matter of course, as the broadcasts prove. The one direct emulation of a recording – Jesper Thilo’s version of Lester’s magnificent solo on the Jones-Smith, Inc. Lady Be Good – is beyond criticism, because that solo is a composition equal to any Schubert song, and no one complains when anyone sings those notes as written. |