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Frank Macchia: Saxolollapalooza

As John Cleese used to say on the Monty Python television series, And now for something completely different." Of course, one can usually expect something completely different from free-thinking Frank Macchia, and this CD is no exception to the rule. Once upon a time, Macchia writes, he bought a bass saxophone and came up with the ...
Saxolollapalooza

Label: Cacophony
Released: 2008
Track listing: Air Mail Special; Down by the Riverside; My One and Only Love; Working Day and Night; Java; Caravan; Shortening Bread; Bluesalicious!; Creole Love Song; Work Song; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; That's A-Plenty.
Frank Macchia: Saxolollapalooza

Way in the background on some classic big band recordings, there is a high-pitched aural glow, a sustained, ethereal, almost liturgical hum coming from somewhere in the reeds section. Duke Ellington's There Shall Be No Night," from the great Blanton/Webster Band box set (Bluebird, 1990), has it. Partly it's the recording technology of the time, sufficiently ...
Air Mail Special

Album: Saxolollapalooza
By FRANK MACCHIA
Label: Cacophony Records
Released: 0
Duration: 3:06