The CDs I ordered were all harmonica oriented. I taught myself on a 

Marine Band and joined Mr. Jacob and his children on the stoop of a 

tenement. Bless his heart.He taught his children well, and I went along for 

the ride and the best time a kid could have for $ 1.05.(the going price for a 

MB in those days).
That was in the Bronx,  N..Y. 

 I have gone through a lot of harmonicas but still Have that Marine Band  

and I still play it in rotation with my other Harpes. I\'.ve  got a Hohner CX 

12,  64 Chromatic harmonica, and  a lot of 10. 12  holes  All chromatics 

.and a Hohner birth Certificate. I have been looking for a CD with a first 

class Harmonica player . Amazon came up with a fine jazz ensemble 

,harmonica with Julian Jackson on the harmonica. Bunny Berigan was
a fraternity brother of mine and \"   I can\'t get started \" is one of my very
favorites.Just try and find that  CD somewhere else. Julian  Jackson   
Quartet  Tim Lampthorn : piano, Tom Herbert: bass,   Patrick Levett:
drum s   I was promised delivery on the 29 th and I was playing them that 
evening.Beautifully packaged  and arrived in great shape.
Peter
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Hi
I know Julian as I am a fellow Jazz Chromatic Harmonica player, although i tenn to favour the great American song book with a Jazz flavour, rather than pure Jazz numbers.
This album by Julian is terriffic.
He is a highly gifted player.
Barry Watson.
Westerham, Kent.
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recently bought ...can't get started...we are so thrilled with the music that we have just ordered two more copies, to be given to friends,   Have been listening to harmonica music for better than 60 years, you are the greatest.
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With three successive Hohner Harmonica Championships, periods of study at both the Guildhall and Royal Academy, and encouragement from Toots Thielemans and Julian Joseph behind him, Liverpudlian Julian Jackson can reasonably claim to be in the first rank of jazz harmonica players, and this album contains ten great showcases for his extraordinary gift. 

Like other performers on 'unusual' jazz instruments (a good parallel might be Richard Galliano on accordion), he impresses initially courtesy solely of his amazing technique, but such surprise quickly gives way to admiration for his fecund musical imagination, an improvisational bent that results in punchy versions of standards such as the album's lengthy title track and 'Autumn Leaves', and an ability to extract genuine emotion (often courtesy of an affecting 'dying fall' at the ends of phrases) from ballads ('Alfie' and Bill Evans's 'Laurie'). 

With sterling support from a sparky band (pianist Tim Lapthorn, bassist Tom Herbert and drummer Patrick Levett), Jackson turns in a highly impressive performance on this lively, intelligently programmed album.
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