Echoes Of Swing - Blue Pepper (2013)

01. Blue Pepper
02. Azzurro
03. Blue Prelude
04. La Paloma Azul
05. Blue & Naughty
06. Blue Moon
07. Black Stick Blues
08. Blue River
09. Out Of The Blue
10. Aoi Sanmyaku (Blue Mountain Range)
11. The Smurf
12. Blue Gardenia
13. The Blue Medicine / Radovan's Remedy
14. Wild Cat Blues
15. Azure

Colin T. Dawson - trumpet, vocals on 3, 8 & 12
Chris Hopkins - alto sax
Bernd Lhotzky - piano, celesta on 9
Oliver Mewes - drums

It's hard to believe at first that there are only four instruments here. The arrangements are so ingenious, and the playing so nimble, that it could be at least twice that number. But listen closely and you will discover just a quartet of trumpet, alto saxophone, piano and drums – with absolutely no electronic tricks. The style is sophisticated small-band swing, the material a judicious mixture of originals and swing-era numbers and there is not a hint of whiskery nostalgia in any of it. It's about time this idiom received some fresh attention and here's the perfect curtain-raiser. --- theguardian.com

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