- Audio CD (14 July 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Time Bomb
- ASIN: B000009E8I
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 205,197 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Primaro Magnifico Neo-Swing......
5 Mar 2005
Format:Audio CD
What a delicious collection of music this treat is! Dynamic & danceable throughout. This is Neo-Swing @ its finest. Looking for that special something that is `all meat & potatoes'? Tired of the ` kibbles & bits' so prevalent in the releases of recorded music? (Usually one purchases a CD, & gets 2 or 3 nice pieces, & the rest is filler). This collection is easy to dance to, vibrant & happy, or steamy & sensual. Exciting music, so alive w/ lots of fun breaks, runs, & accents- emphasizing horns & a stride/jazz woogie/boogie woogie piano. Harmonies delicately blending in and out to unquestionably quantify their musicality understanding. Then, there is Johnny Boyd.... Johnny Boyd IS the vocals that are very smooth, about as smooth as you can get them. He repeatedly exercises that special & velvety sound- melting in that extra smoothness, almost as if they were built for swing music. Watch out for those saxophone accents, you can almost see them building!!! I have memorized all the breaks & accents & a better collection of music is far & few between. In regards to dancing- This IS Lindy Hop & East Coast Swing, with a tempo (I'd say is 100-160ish BPM). In closing, there are very few pieces of music I would classify as a `gotta have', but this is a true gotta have. Okay, don't/can't dance? Fine. It's all GOOD!! The lyrics of this album SWING of Beauty, Hope, Life & its flavor and passion that sums up what both life and love are about...good times, regrets, fun, and more fun! "Regular Joe" & "How Lucky...," just the titles alone, sums up what this whole disc is about and the good things that happen to regular people (Oh, what a dance number!!!!). `How Lucky Can One Guy Be', often brings me sunny days when the clouds of life overcast my views of things. Graciously Yours, Steven R. Mashin- Oregon City, Oregon.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Excellent swing album
16 July 1998
Format:Audio CD
This is the second album from the San Francisco based swing sextet, featuring their new line-up (permanent guitarist, and a new drummer and upright bass player). Although I miss some of the more energeic covers that graced their first album, this is still a teriffic effort, with original standouts "Regular Joe" (played with the Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra) "What's the Matter Baby" and "How Lucky." And they finally found a space for their perennial personal number, "Baron Plays the Horses," written about their sax player (the musical backbone of the band). Johnny Boyd still has the best singing voice in swing jazz, embarassing just about every other band's front man -- just compare him to the intolerable screech of "Cherry Poppin's Daddies" and you'll realize what a sublime pleasure a practiced, unified jazz band can be.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great Fun and good tunes
24 April 2004
Format:Audio CD
This CD is a blast. The songs are catchy and infectious. I regret not hearing these guys when they were together. If you want a good, bubbly album that doesn't have one bad song on it...this is it. I would compare their style more to the Louie Jordan school.....almost a bridge between traditional swing and early rock/boogie woogie styles. I can even hear a catchy ska sound on some of the tracks. Fantastic album.
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