Jazz Articles about Joe Licari

Mark Shane/Joe Licari: Swing It, Brother, Swing!!

by Robert Levin
July 27, 2019

The title of the album is Swing It, Brother, Swing!! but it could just as well have been tagged After Hours. Not that this small gem of an album, rooted in the sensibility and protocols of the swing era (and in certain of that period's antecedents) isn't a model of forward propulsion. Indeed, in both its slow and middle tempo numbers, it swings mightily. But the alternate tile speaks to the music's intimate, late night mood it immediately evokes.