Jazz Articles about Mike Walbridge

About Mike Walbridge

Album Review

Mike Walbridge´s Chicago Footwarmers: Crazy Rhythm

Read "Crazy Rhythm" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 12, 2008

La Delmark ha riunito in un solo CD due session del 1966 e del 1967 dei Mike Walbridges's Chicago Footwarmers ed una nuova del 2007, in cui Mike Walbridge e Kim Cusack suonano con due nuovi musicisti al banjo ed alla batteria. Si tratta di due session di dixieland abbastanza interessanti, realizzate da musicisti abbastanza professionali, che chiaramente hanno una differenza in termini di qualità sonora. Kim Cusack è un bravo clarinettista che si rifà a stili tradizionali (Darnell Howard ...

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Album Review

Mike Walbridge's Chicago Footwarmers: Crazy Rhythm

Read "Crazy Rhythm" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
April 8, 2008

With music as venerable as this it's approach that's the key, and with these men the approach is nigh on perfect. Neither the dead hand of reverence or the corn that's often the undoing of traditional jazz performed decades after the event has a place here. Instead the music harks back to a simpler, more spontaneous time in a way that's anything but the product of dewy-eyed nostalgia. The thing that makes the difference could just be love. Recorded over ...