TED BUTTERMAN: Live At The Village Tavern

Ted Butterman

Live At The Village Tavern

© 2001 dixieswing.com

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Swing. Four rhythm, piano, bass, guitar and drums, and one horn on each track featuring four different horn players.

tracks

1 When You're Smilin'
2 The One I Love
3 Sweet Georgia Brown
4 China Boy
5 On The Alamo
6 I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
7 After You've Gone
8 These Foolish Things
9 Rosetta
10 Undecided
11 Let Yourself Go
12 Three Little Words
13 It All Depends On You
14 Some Of These Days
15 Lester Leaps In

notes

This Swing CD was recorded live at the Village Tavern in Long Grove, IL., a Northwest suburb of Chicago, where the Neo-Passé Swing Quintet performed there for many years. They have since abandoned jazz. This CD was recorded between February and June of 2001.

Playing in the spirit of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, with a sprinkling of the 60s thrown in for good measure, the group's rhythm section is comprised of Piano, Acoustic upright bass, Drums, and Acoustic rhythm guitar.

Although, because of their change of entertainment policy, and the band is no longer there, the flavor of the evening still remains intact.

Six of the tracks feature Eric Schneider, an Earl Hines and Count Basie alumnus, on Tenor, Alto and Soprano saxes, and clarinet.

Three tracks have the long time Chicagoland reed legend, Stu Genovese, whose insightful approach to the art has been heartally received and accepted even beyond the shores of the U.S. Stu shared the stage with some of the greats in jazz including Oscar Peterson.

Three more show the swing side of Kim Cusack, long associated with the Salty Dogs Dixieland band, on clarinet.

The final three tracks have the internationally renown Russ Phillips exhibiting his amazing prowess on trombone. He has several CDs of his own available in your local record store.

Leader and guitarist Ted Butterman has assembled a group of players dedicated to the genre but who do not intentionally copy the founding fathers. As an aside, Ted changes hats in the summer, plays trumpet, and leads the Chicago Cubs Dixieland Band and who are now in their twenty fourth year at "The Friendly Confines". Information about the other performers can be found in the liner notes, as well as on the web site www.dixieswing.com

Released in December of 2001, reviews in the local media have been excellent and sales are brisk. Great review in the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal! It is an album that you will enjoy listening to often and that you could well afford to have in your collection.

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  • Live at The Village Tavern
    author: Harlow B. Staley

    favorite record. These guys are good and play things I know.

  • author: Phillip LeMignon

    A must for any collection. A generous portion of swinging jazz. Get one before they're all gone.

  • Great representation of the swing era. Lots of tension mixed with sensitivity. G
    author: Bill Nicholson

    GREAT CD. Well recorded, 73 minutes of hard swinging swing jazz mixed with sophisticated renderings of ballads, all of the '30s, '40s, and some '50s. No weak sisters here regarding the musicians.

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