Saturday, August 7, 2010

Music Review - Evan Christopher Celebrates Sidney Bechet

"The set kept up a double consciousness: recherche and gutbucket. It included Hoagy Carmichael’s “Jubilee,” James P. Johnson’s “Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid,” Rodgers and Hart’s “Ship Without a Sail” and Tommy Ladnier’s “Mojo Blues” — the kind of list that only a scholar would put together. But then frontline entertainers in this music are scholars by definition."
The whole review is great, the idea of keeping Bechet's style of jazz alive wonderful, but I like this selection most of all--if for no other reason than the phrase, "recherche and gutbucket." What a setlist.

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