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Deep Passion: Menno Daams - David Lukacs and Friends
Source:
Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
It's been a wonderful day for swinging jazz—tender and hot—because I found these four performances on YouTube. The peerless (and under-heralded) trumpeter, arranger, composer Menno Daams has started his own YouTube channel ("menno779") and its videos include these four delightful performances by the “Daams-Lukacs Orchestra" of jazz classics—homages to Bix, to Louis, and Duke—that are evocations rather than copies even when they seem to be hewing closely to the originals. The orchestra—well-rehearsed without being stiff—is composed of Menno on trumpet ...
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