The International All-Stars

The International All-Stars: Play Benny Goodman, Volume 2

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1998

Boy, do they ever! The belief in and enthusiasm for the swing music of the great B.G. bubbles to the surface everywhere in this exuberant concert date by the six-member group of International All-Stars (who are joined on the last three numbers by ace clarinetists Allan Vaché and Antti Sarpila). Each of these “stars" has a specific role to play, and one marvels at how easily everyone coalesces to help reconstruct the sort of loose-limbed “jam session" atmosphere that prevailed ...