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Burgamy-Hancock New Originators: Down in Honky Tonk Town

by Jack Bowers
November 13, 2026

Most longtime jazz fans are well aware of what transpires Down in Honky Tonk Town: lively, high-stepping close- quarters classic jazz with a spicy New Orleans flavor. And that is precisely what banjoist Hunter Burgamy, cornetist Colin Hancock and the New Originators deliver on their bright and swinging debut recording for Turtle Bay Records. This is music designed to set toes tapping and bodies dancing as the New Originators nonet mirrors the rigorous and razor-sharp ensemble work and ...