Tom Kubis Big Band - Slightly Off The Ground

Styles: Big Band
Year: 1989
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:53
Size: 138,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:24)  1. Purple Porpoise Parkway
(7:25)  2. Exactly Like This
(4:36)  3. Play It Again, Sam
(4:41)  4. Who Can I Turn To
(3:24)  5. Slightly Off The Ground
(5:26)  6. Which Craft?
(3:40)  7. Ain't It Wonderful
(6:06)  8. Teach Me Tonight
(6:26)  9. Samba Dees Godda Do It
(4:28) 10. When You're Smiling
(4:47) 11. Imagine What A Change Will Do
(4:24) 12. Alexander's Big Time Band

Tom Kubis' first recording as a leader is quite impressive. His arranging chops were already in their prime, his big band uses similar personnel to the one in existence more than a dozen years later, and he makes several standards (along with a few originals) sound fresh and lively. Jack Sheldon helps out on "Play It Again Sam" (during which he quickly sums up the entire plot of Casablanca), "Who Can I Turn To," "Which Craft?," and "Alexander's Big Time Band," while trombonist Bill Watrous takes warm and heated solos on "Slightly Off the Ground" and a relaxed "When You're Smiling." The band swings hard, Kubis sounds fine on tenor and soprano, and the ensemble has a recognizable identity. For Tom Kubis, this was an impressive start to a productive career.~ Scott Yanow 

http://www.allmusic.com/album/slightly-off-the-ground-mw0000273008

Slightly Off The Ground

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