ARTIST`````The Famous Castle Jazz Band
ALBUM`````The Five Pennies
GENRE`````Jazz
YEAR````````1959
Stomp your feet!
The film version of cornetist Red Nichols' life was a Hollywood success, and one of the very few movies to resist the stereotypical image of jazz musicians as drunken, drug-addled losers. Here, the Famous Castle Jazz Band (who didn't play on the original soundtrack) reinterpret songs from that film in a delightful session that brings fire to the cornier production numbers written by Sylvia Fine and authenticity to standards like "That's A Plenty," "After You've Gone" (with a jaunty vocal from Monte Ballou), "Ja-Da," "My Blue Heaven," and the inevitable "When the Saints Go Marching In," given a rousing closing treatment here. Not the soundtrack, but in many ways a whole lot better.
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1 comment:
This is marvelous stuff Mr. Stuffer.
Definitely going to make it to a Sonic Tonic. The Silent Monkey and I would love to do a compilation for you.
Keep up the good work, and if you can think of something that would sound good on our podcast, then that would be...how do you people say?...Sweeeeet
TTT
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