"Capturing the best in British Traditional Jazz"
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| PKCD-259 | JENSEN'S NEW ORLEANS JAZZ SERENADERS featuring Brian Carrick & Eddie Bruhner | "Live at the 2004 Keswick Festival" | This is a family band - Kurt Jensen on clarinet and tenor sax, his wife Nan Ehrenstrale on double bass and daughter Nina on banjo and vocals, with drummer Ronald Anderson. At Keswick 2004 they were joined by Brian Carrick (clarinet and tenor sax) and Eddie Bruhner (trumpet). Having two reed players, both of whom doubled on clarinet and tenor sax, gave rise to some interesting sound variations - two clarinets on some tracks, two tenors on other tracks, etc. The band's style is what one might call 'earthy New Orleans' and the tunes are:- Get Out Of Here And Go On Home, On A Coconut Island, Hindustan, How Great Thou Art, Jambalaya On The Bayou, I Can't Escape From You, Corrine Corrina, Nyboders Pris, Cat's Got Kittens, Crazy, South, The Old Spinning Wheel In The Parlour, Down By The Riverside, Joe Avery's Piece. (72 mins) |
| PKCD-260 | THE TIERRA BUENA JAZZ BAND | "Linger Awhile with The Tierra Buena Jazz Band" | This super band, based near Coventry, has been going for nearly 50 years, still with three founder members. Their music covers a wide spectrum of traditional jazz styles, as the list of tune titles shows, and everything they play is done with great enthusiasm and good taste. An all-round excellent band, which really should be much more widely known. They had a cassette recorded about ten or so years ago but amazingly this is their first CD! The tune titles are:- Bouncing Around, Some Of These Days, Faraway Blues, I Saw Stars, Frog-I-More Rag, Big Fat Ma And Skinny Pa, Paramount Scuffle, Linger Awhile, I'm Minding My Own Business, When I Come To The End Of My Journey, Oriental Man, For All We Know, Just Wait 'til You See My Baby Do The Charleston, Saratoga Swing, I Lost My Girl From Memphis, Swing That Music. The line-up is Brian Bates cornet; Dave 'Spud' Taylor clarinet & tenor sax; Brian 'Watty' Wathen trombone; Dave Wagstaff banjo; Barry Potts bass; Al Sharpe drums. (72mins) |
| PKCD-261 | THE JOHN HALLAM JAZZTET | "Keep Swinging" | John Hallam has appeared on P.E.K. Sound with various bands (Jeff Barnhart's British Band, Roger Heeley Trio, Crazy Rhythm and most recently The Harmony Hounds), but this is our first recording by his own quartet (live at the 2004 Keswick Festival). If their music had to be put in a pigeon-hole, I suppose it could be called lyrical swinging mainstream jazz. John's sensitive and fluent clarinet and sax playing is brilliantly supported by Steve Moore (keyboard), Dave Capp (double bass) and Ken Leigh (drums). The tunes are:- Swing That Music, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, Love Walked In, I Cover The Waterfront, Lullaby 0f The Leaves, Poor Butterfly, A Weaver Of Dreams, I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good, Line For Lyons, Pee Wee Blues, Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin', I Surrender Dear, Puttin' On The Ritz. (73mins) |
| PKCD-262 | THE OLD FASHIONED LOVE BAND | "One Hour Tonight" | This second CD on P.E.K. by the band is somewhat different from their first. They have broadened their musical repertoire considerably to include some very rarely-heard old tunes, which virtually nobody else plays, as well as some tunes which they have written themselves. Of course they still have time for some 'good old good ones'. The line-up is unchanged;- Mel Hill cornet & vocals; Eric Newton clarinet; Mike Pembroke trombone & vocals; Jake Reeves banjo, guitar & vocals; Peter Robinson bass; Dave Timmis drums. The tunes are:- I Saw Stars, If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight), Stumbling, Angry, Tender Little Spot, Nobody's Sweetheart, The New Yorker, Some Sweet Day, Louisian-I-A, The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart, Poor Fool, My Honey's Lovin' Arms, Oatcakes, I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad, When I Take My Sugar To Tea,, Just A Closer Walk With Thee. (69mins) |
| PKCD-265 | VO-DE-O-DO ORCHESTRA | "My Baby's Wild About The Old V.O." | The Vo-De-O-Do Orchestra was the very first band I ever recorded for a commercial release, back in 1991 I think it was. Now at last here is their first CD. This ten-piece band (plus vocalist) plays the music of the 1920s and '30s bands - Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson etc, as well as some dance band tunes of the era. The line-up is:- David Jones and John Strangman trumpets, Mike Wilcox, John Birch, Quentin Bryar saxes, Simon Wyld trombone, Gwyn Arch piano, Robin Mosley banjo, Jack Pamplin double bass, Terry Vincent drums, Jan Curd vocals. The tunes are:- Double Check Stomp, Durrants Club House Stomp, My Melancholy Baby, Happy Feet, Honeysuckle Rose, Piccolo Pete. Going Nuts, Echoes Of The Jungle, Grandpa's Spells, Do Something, Shuffle @ The Station, Stomp Off Let's Go, My Baby's Wild About My Old Trombone, Rip Tide, Wa Wa Wa, Big Bad Bill, Ukulele Baby, Beedle Um Bum, I Can't Get Started. (71mins) |
| PKCD-266 | DENNIS ARMSTRONG'S GREAT NORTHERN JAZZ BAND | "Now, here's a tune" | Here is the first CD for P.E.K. by this excellent band led by Dennis Armstrong cnt, with Peter Curtis cl, Terry McGrath tb, Malcolm Hogarth pno, Mike Sayles bjo, Isabel Toner bs and Dave Jenkins dms. In every respect this is a quality band, playing a wide range of traditional jazz, and paying great attention to playing the tunes as closely as possible to how they were written, some of them with the rarely-heard verse as well - something for which I applaud them. The tunes are:- Candy Lips, The Old Folks At Home, Atlanta Blues, Chattanooga Stomp, I Can't Say, I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind, Gypsy Love Song, Chimes Blues, Jazz Club Bounce, Bright Eyes Goodbye, Memphis Blues, Ting-A-Ling, Froggie Moore Rag, Yellow Dog Blues, Yearning, Darkness On The Delta, Panama. (75min) |
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