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By Joe Newman
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Oh Gee/ Dacquiri/ Blues for Slim/ The Very Thought of You/ For You/ The Continental/ Strike Up the Band/ Nice Work if You Can Get It/ There
Joe Newman & Henry "Red" Allen: Hot Trumpets of...
by Derek Taylor
Though waxed less than a month apart the sessions coupled on this disc spotlight the talents of two stylistically divergent trumpeters. Newman was a Basie Band alum and firmly grounded in the pleasures and politics of swing. Allen’s sound was derived from older New Orleans traditions and his youthful tenure with Louis Armstrong’s big band. The ...