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Mike Walbridge´s Chicago Footwarmers: Crazy Rhythm
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Delmark ha riunito in un solo CD due session del 1966 e del 1967 dei Mike Walbridges's Chicago Footwarmers ed una nuova del 2007, in cui Mike Walbridge e Kim Cusack suonano con due nuovi musicisti al banjo ed alla batteria. Si tratta di due session di dixieland abbastanza interessanti, realizzate da musicisti abbastanza professionali, che chiaramente hanno una differenza in termini di qualità sonora. Kim Cusack è un bravo clarinettista che si rifà a stili tradizionali (Darnell Howard ...
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by Nic Jones
With music as venerable as this it's approach that's the key, and with these men the approach is nigh on perfect. Neither the dead hand of reverence or the corn that's often the undoing of traditional jazz performed decades after the event has a place here. Instead the music harks back to a simpler, more spontaneous time in a way that's anything but the product of dewy-eyed nostalgia. The thing that makes the difference could just be love. Recorded over ...
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