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Sam Trippe and His Jazz Orchestra: Explosion!
ByThe band explodes from the starting gate on "Dress Blues" and scarcely pauses for breath until crossing the finish line with a buoyant reading of "It's a Wonderful World." Migliori's wailing tenor, reminiscent of Al Cohn (and, on "How High the Moon," of Gene Ammons on Woody's "More Moon"), is heard most often, with other respectable solos by pianist Shep Meyers and trumpeters Don Cinquemani, Bob Mitchell and Diz Mullins. Baritone saxophonist Gil Sciaqua is listed as a soloist on "Wonderful World," but the only sax solo is a tenor, and it sounds like Migliori.
There's one ballad, "You Go to My Head," whose featured trumpet is unlisted, as are the trombone and trumpet solos on "Ride Around the Block" and the trombone on "Wonderful World," among others. These are by no means the only flaws in a cheesylooking product whose slipshod graphics and useless liner notes look as though they'd been copied in a hurry on someone's cheap mimeograph machine. While the inner pages of its fourpage booklet are devoted for the most part to a listing of personnel, only bass trombonist Bill Smiley's name appears as a member of that section, and surely there must have been more saxophones than those of Migliori, Sciaqua and alto Al Willet.
A singlepage overlay includes the word "new," which is technically correct, as the album is new to Americatone, although it was recorded, as we said, more than forty years ago. These flaws, however, have nothing to do with the music, which is consistently firstrate (all 30:40 of it), and we can recommend the album in spite of them.
Track Listing
Dress Blues, Grumpy, Bella's Back in Town, Larry Finley's Stomp, You Got to My Head, Ride Around the Block, How High the Moon, It's a Wonderful World, Wail Street.
Personnel
Sam Trippe
composer / conductorDon Cinquemani
trumpetDiz Mullins
trumpetRoy Catos
trumpetAl Willet
saxophone, altoJay Migliori
saxophoneGil Sciaqua
saxophone, baritoneBill Smiley
trombone, bassShep Meyers
pianoFrancis James
bassChiz Harris
drumsBob Mitchell
trumpetAlbum information
Title: Explosion! | Year Released: 2001 | Record Label: Americatone
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