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Big Band Blues
By Swingadelic
Label: MediaMix
Released: 2005
Track listing: Down Home Girl; Hay Burner; Don
Swingadelic: Big Band Blues
by Jack Bowers
As its name implies, Swingadelic, a “little big band from Hoboken, New Jersey, focuses primarily on music from the Swing Era, especially the blues. The band has no vocalist as such; instead, various members of the ensemble double in that capacity, with some faring better than others. There are vocals on eight of the album's twelve ...
Pete Fountain with the New Lawrence Welk Orchestra: Big Band Blues
by Jack Bowers
When writing in a recent review about the scarcity of top–notch Jazz clarinetists on the scene today, I managed to overlook one — a pardonable error, as Pete Fountain has been sequestered for so long in his native New Orleans that it’s fairly easy for him to fly under one’s radar screen. Nevertheless, there’s no denying ...
