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Uptown 5: Uptown Swing

by Stephen Latessa
June 7, 2005

In the press materials accompanying Uptown Swing, trombonist Jeff Williams describes the Uptown 5 as “a swing quintet playing mainly Basie and Basie influenced music utilizing the enormous and under-used sound of the trombone and tenor saxophone. The description is certainly true, as far as it goes, but it leaves out the palpable sense of joy ...