Rick Fay & Friends - Oh Baby

Styles: Jazz, Dixieland
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:44
Size: 141,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:47)  1. Oh Baby
(6:22)  2. Tin Roof Blues
(4:12)  3. Sunday
(6:15)  4. Emaline / It All Depends On You/Lazy Mood
(5:36)  5. Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight
(3:36)  6. If You Were the Only Girl
(4:47)  7. As Long As I Live
(4:02)  8. Chinatown, My Chinatown
(4:59)  9. New Orleans
(5:03) 10. Lou-Easy-An-I-A
(4:16) 11. If You See My Mother
(3:05) 12. Sandy
(4:39) 13. 'Deed I Do

This early release from the Arbors label (a company which in the 1990s became one of jazz's best at documenting the current small-group swing scene) features the underrated Rick Fay on clarinet, tenor and soprano interacting with trombonist Dan Barrett (who is responsible for many of the arranged spots) and cornetist Ernie Carson. The music is unabashed dixieland with a few swing standards thrown in. 

The playing is consistently creative and exciting within the style with the highlights including "Oh Baby," a three-song ballad medley (particularly Barrett's Jack Teagarden-inspired playing on "Emaline"), "As Long As I Live" and a spirited "Lou-Easy-An-I-A." Ernie Carson's solos in particular are a constant joy. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/oh-baby/id151653910

Personnel: Rick Fay (vocals, clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Bob Leary (vocals, guitar, banjo); Ernie Carson (vocals, cornet); Dan Barrett (trombone); Lee Richardson (saxophone); Tom Baldwin (piano); Pat Doyle (drums).

Oh Baby

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