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$14.95 | 
I Never Knew (Fiorito, Kahn)
Stardust (Carmichael)
1) Big Shoe (Hamilton)
2) Taps Miller (Basie)
3) Stardust (Carmichael)
4) Discontented Blues (Ellington)
5) Robbin's Nest (Jacquet, Thompson)
6) I Want A Little Girl (Murray, Mencher)
7) Topsy (Battle, Durham)
8) Black and Tan Fantasy (Ellington)
9) I Never Knew (Fiorito, Kahn)
10) Isn't It Romantic (Rogers, Hart)
11) Easy Money (Carter) | |
Doug Haining and The Twin Cities Seven - Minnesota's finest swing musicians playing the best in small group jazz. Music styled after the great Count Basie and Duke Ellington side-man ensembles. Take a chance on this swinging CD! You won't be disappointed! |
| 'This album offers an ample sample of splendid, communal small-group swing in the grand tradition of Count Basie's Kansas City Seven and Duke Ellington's sideman ensembles. The recording itself is gorgeous in the old-fashioned manner, with everybody in the same room, recording the same song at the same time. Such music requires a sense of ease, command and confidence. It's gotta sound both lazy and lively, lived-in and fresh. Alto saxophonist/clarinetist Haining, along with his crack crew of Wolverines Jazz Orchestra mates and other pals, has zero trouble getting the feel of the deal. His spare, skillful three-horn arrangements very gently tweak such old warhorses as "Taps Miller" and a happily-driving "I Never Knew."
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~ Tom Surowicz, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 10/2002
'Doug Haining and the Twin Cities Seven, who by name are a group of musicians with passion, feeling, and respect for American Jazz History....Listen! And you will hear how instruments can sing while the rhythm section swings subtly with the brass and horns riding over... '
~ Leigh Kamman, The JAZZ IMAGE. |
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