Jim Robinson

Jim Robinson: Economy Hall Breakdown

by Nic Jones
December 3, 2007

At the time this music was captured for posterity in 1965, trombonist Jim Robinson had been working as a professional musician for almost forty years. That work experience in the traditional New Orleans style--Robinson had previously worked under the leadership of both Bunk Johnson and clarinetist George Lewis--comes out here in a program of music both vigorous and joyful.

To hear something like “Right Now Is The Right Time is to hear music that perhaps predated recording technology, played not ...