The Tom Talbert Orchestra

The Tom Talbert Orchestra: The Warm Cafe

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

“Discover Jazz,” the booklet accompanying this splendid CD suggests, and there are few more pleasant ways to do so than by taking one’s seat near the bandstand for an hour or so of delightfully easygoing music in Tom Talbert’s amiable Warm Cafe. A tip of the fedora to Essential Music Group for reissuing the album, which was recorded in 1991–92. That Talbert, a topnotch composer / arranger for some sixty years, derives his inspiration from such Swing Era giants as ...