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'REVIEW: Moreland & Arbuckle, 'Promised Land Or Bust,' Alligator Records
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'REVIEW: Gus Spenos, 'If You Were Gold Baby,' Self-Released
Time for fun. If you want to jump, jive and wail, you could, of course, turn to Louie Prima. But he's dead. Gus Spenos is alive...wonderfully, wildly alive. This Indiana neurologist has self-released 'If You Were Gold Baby' and he's garnered big-time trombonist Wycliffe Gordon to blow and arrange as the feather in this hat of swing, blues and boogie. -
'REVIEW: Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach, 'Balladscapes,' Intuition Records (Germany)
Just like sibling harmonies, the magic created by Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach has been nurtured, in this case, for almost half a century. They need no rhythm section. Their chemistry is second nature. 'Balladscapes' (Intuition Records, Germany) is so pure and so free that it has, forevermore, cemented these two in time.
