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Uptown Swing

Label: Harlem Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Looking Uptown; Give Me The Simple Life; Battle Royal; Blue And Sentimental; Corner Pocket; Bebe's Blues; Just One Of Those Things; The Spirit Is Willing; Ballad Melody; Hot News; If I Had You; Taste On The Place

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Uptown 5: Uptown Swing

Read "Uptown Swing" reviewed by Stephen Latessa

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 ...