author: Ronald K Hale
Watch the videos of their May 17, 2009, performance at Maxwell DeMille's Cicada Club
(clubcicada.com) for a real treat.
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Superlative swing!
author: Ralph Sayers
I simply refer you to my review of Jammin' The Blues by this wonderful aggregation. All I said there is appropriate here! Buy! Buy! Buy!
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author: Damien (Fra)
This Cd is simply wonderful. I mean, a lot of groups can posses an idea of how swing may sound, but unlike Jonathan Stout combo,they often forget how much swing must stay inseparable from its social and musical interaction with dancers. Giving a tremendous want to go on the floor, they never borrow swingers with stereotyped or endless choruses, they just understood the swing not only as music, but also as a crazy expression of life with feets and ears.
Damien Fra. (MA. Ethnomusicology)
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The 40's comes to CD
author: Shayne White
If CD players had been around back in the 40's, then this CD would be exactly what would be selling then. Even the name of their band -- Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five, Featuring Hillary Alexander -- is completely authentic, as most swing bands seemed to name their groups in that manner.
It doesn't get better than this. The recording is excellent -- they even use vintage mics -- and they have a really tight sound, extremely professional. Hillary's vocals are great -- she has a slightly husky voice, but of course that's the style, and it definitely isn't TOO husky at all like a lot of people's voices are. Her pitch is right on and she has a good tone.
I loved the selections on the CD. I knew "Why Don't You Do Right?" from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (which they would probably be horrified to hear), and I knew "Drum Boogie" from "Ball of Fire." Of course there are nineteen other excellent tracks beyond those two which are equally good.
You absolutely must buy this CD! You're missing out on a world of fun if you don't!
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