Harry Allen, Randy Sandke - Turnstile: Music of the Trumpet Kings with the RIAS Big Band

Styles: Saxophone And Trumpet Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:14
Size: 136,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:13)  1. I Love Louis
(5:21)  2. Cloudy
(4:22)  3. Echoes of Harlem
(3:28)  4. Little Jazz Boogie
(4:31)  5. I Can't Get Started
(3:43)  6. Melancholy Rhapsody
(2:31)  7. Randy's Rolls Royce
(5:28)  8. Shaw'Nuff
(6:12)  9. All Blues
(3:08) 10. Turnstile
(6:17) 11. Relaxin' At Clifford's
(4:07) 12. The Moontrane
(4:47) 13. Birdlike

Most of the recordings put out by the German Nagel Heyer label are pre-bop, ranging from Dixieland to mainstream. This outing stretches the boundaries a little, for trumpeter Randy Sandke (who is joined by tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and a big band led by Jiggs Whigham) pays tribute to a variety of great trumpeters ranging from Louis Armstrong to Woody Shaw ("The Moontrane") and Freddie Hubbard ("Bird Like"). Sandke contributed a pair of originals, arranged all 13 pieces, and helped bring a forgotten (and only partly composed) Bix Beiderbecke composition ("Cloudy") to life. In addition to those mentioned, Sandke pays tribute to Cootie Williams, Roy Eldridge, Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Buck Clayton, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Clifford Brown. He hints at their styles without actually copying them, and has a flexible enough approach to sound comfortable in all of the idioms. Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-music-of-the-trumpet-kings-mw0000732284

Personnel: Randy Sandke - (trumpet), Harry Allen - (tenor sax) with the RIAS Big Band Berlin led by Jiggs Whigham

Turnstile: Music of the Trumpet Kings with the RIAS Big Band

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