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ARBORS
BUCKY & JOHN PIZZARELLI/Generations: When the kid goes into the family business, it doesn’t always come out as nice as it did with this father and son. Two stellar performers that rose to the top of their respective games and stayed there, we find them getting into it together here with a kind of simpatico that can only be genetic. Tasty, warm and winning, there’s more than music that’s going to touch you here. There’s a vibe in their set that’s just going to bowl you over. When you talk about music that’s right from the heart, this has got to be one of your ground zero references.
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PHIL BODNER/Once More With Feeling: Anyone know when it was the licorice stick went out of favor? Maybe around the time there were no new cats that really knew how to take it out for a spin? That’s semi-remedied here with old pro Bodner revving his up and taking it for a spin, even of the spins here were originally recorded up to over 40 years ago. There might not be any young whipersnappers following in his wake but this set puts that issue on hold. The set card is all oldies and Bodner and his pals know how to crank up the racoon coat styled good time with tunes you loved from cartoons as a kid and never really knew was grown up music in the first place. Whether swinging hard or sweet, this is a fun jazz diversion that really cooks.
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JUNE CHRISTY/Intimate Miss: An old school swinger that pretty much wrote the book on the subject, Christie is here with only a guitar and bass behind her sending her otherwise cool jazz readings of tunes well into the make out zone. A tasty, low key set that seems to have late night martinis and fire places oozing out of it, Christie delivers well. A romantic album that makes the leap into being strong anytime listening as well, it’s a dandy artifact from when music was made to last.
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JULIE LONDON/Around Midnight: In a change of pace from her jazz combo recordings, London worked it out with a big band on a set of late night themed songs. Starting with Monk and ending with Comden/Green, London fearlessly took on all comers in finding material for this sexy, late night stew of wistful songs. Certainly a lounge classic, this was a shot of London right at the top of her game. A winner of a reissue for vocal fans.
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CHRIS CONNOR/At the Village Gate: Reissue of a 60’s date that finds the 50s swinger still giving it her all in a set of standards that she gives her own spin to. While the bulk of her catalog has been well tended to in the reissue world, there’s still little gems like this that have yet to take their place in line and get their due. The kind of set that fought the good fight in the face of the Beatles incoming tide and still retains the charm and oomph it was packed with today. A vocal treat whether you’re grampa or not.
71346 (Roulette Jazz)
Volume 30/Number 147
March 27, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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