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Doug Munro: Putt Lake Toodleloo
ByTwo-time Grammy nominee and NAIRD award winner, guitarist/educator/composer/author Doug Munro, who founded the Purchase College Jazz Studies program and served as its director from 19932002, leads his spirited octet, the La Pompe Attack, through a swaying mix of originals and tried and true chestnuts for a mix that neither challenges nor fatigues, but simply lowers the blood pressure, takes a few deep breaths, and pours a glass of wine for the weary.
Munro, who over the years has contributed to the music of Dr. John, Michael Brecker, Steve Khan and Dr. Lonnie Smith, wears his heart (gypsy swing, soul and latin jazz) and his influence (Django Reinhardt) unabashedly on his sleeve, making Putt Lake Toodleloo an uplifting, cheerful listen. The psychedelic grunge of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" becomes a delightful gypsy dance. Wayne Shorter's unflagging "Black Nile" eases in, eases out and sets the flow for the delightful original wordplay guitar mashup interplay of "Cast Your Fate to the Wind Cried Mary," Lennon-McCartney's ragtime throwback "Honey Pie" a 12-bar send up of "Down By the Riverside, " and such bouncy, energetic originals as "Psycho Samba" and "Struttin."
And so the album (Munro's twentieth as a leader) sails along as La Pompe Attack Albert Rivera, saxophone, Michael Goetz, bass, drummers Ian Carroll and Jon Doty and its small guitar army of Munro, Vinny Raniolo, Ernie Pugliese, Ted Gottsegen and Ben Woodmakes the music comfortable, irresistible, and, perhaps most importantly, impossible not to smile along to.
Track Listing
Putt Lake Toodleloo; Traffic Jam; Rhumba Gitane; I'm Confessin'; Struttin'; Psycho Samba; Castyourfatetothewindcriedmary; Doug's Bolero; Black Hole Sun; Black Nilke; Manior De Mes Reves (Django's Castle); Honey Pie; Down By The Riverside.
Personnel
Doug Munro
guitarAlbert Rivera
saxophone, tenorTed Gottsegen
guitarBen Wood
guitarVinny Raniolo
guitarErnie Pugliese
guitarMichael Goetz
bass, acousticIan Carroll
drumsJon Doty
drumsAlbum information
Title: Putt Lake Toodleloo | Year Released: 2022 | Record Label: GotMusic Records
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