Pizzarelli/Moore/Frigo/Alden

Pizzarelli/Moore/Frigo/Alden: Hot Club of 52nd Street

by Eric J. Iannelli
May 23, 2004

There is no lack of talent or passion on Hot Club of 52nd Street ; for these two reasons alone it would be a noteworthy album. But this is a rare kind of swinging, foot-stomping, finger-tapping live session, as expressive and fiery as it is expertly controlled. Conceived and carried out in the spirit of guitar great Django Reinhardt (incidentally, Hot Club guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden trained the actors and laid down the soundtrack for Woody Allen’s Django ...