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Carl Fontana / Jiggs Whigham / The Stefan Karlsson Trio: Keepin' Up with the Boneses

by Jack Bowers
This is the second album for TNC Jazz by trombone masters Carl Fontana and Jiggs Whigham with the Stefan Karlsson Trio, and like the first, Nice ‘n’ Easy (1997), it merits comment but is really beyond criticism except to note that there are one or two times when the rhythm section seems overly emphatic and that the earlier album’s playing time was more than sixteen minutes longer. Fontana, of course, is pretty much a known quantity, having been a high–profile ...
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