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Format: CD
Label: Gress Records
Year: 2025
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1. Besame Mucho
2. On Green Dolphin Street
3. Fried Pies
4. A Smooth One
5. Blues Jam In F Minor
6. Killer Joe
7. Secret Love
8. Witch Doctor
9. When You're Smiling
10. One For Lenny
11. Take The "A" Train
Previously unreleased.
PERSONNEL:
Guitar: Danny Gatton
Bass: John Previti
Drums: Barry Hart
Trumpet: Chris Battistone
There are precious few Danny Gatton recordings (and virtually none currently in print), and far fewer that do justice to his skill and creativity as a guitarist and bandleader. So kudos to Gress Records for presenting one of the best examples ever committed to plastic.
Relatively speaking, it's a straight-ahead jazz set, sent soaring at regular intervals when Gatton and his band Funhouse twist that patented throttle labeled "redneck jazz". And while avid fans might be content with a Dictaphone tape of such a show, the fidelity and balance of the recording is also world class.
"Gatton demonstrates that if he had played jazz exclusively, he could easily have ranked alongside the all time greats - Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, and Wes Montgomery. But to the cognoscenti, that is already the case." --UK Jazz Journal
Label: Gress Records
Year: 2025
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1. Besame Mucho
2. On Green Dolphin Street
3. Fried Pies
4. A Smooth One
5. Blues Jam In F Minor
6. Killer Joe
7. Secret Love
8. Witch Doctor
9. When You're Smiling
10. One For Lenny
11. Take The "A" Train
Previously unreleased.
PERSONNEL:
Guitar: Danny Gatton
Bass: John Previti
Drums: Barry Hart
Trumpet: Chris Battistone
There are precious few Danny Gatton recordings (and virtually none currently in print), and far fewer that do justice to his skill and creativity as a guitarist and bandleader. So kudos to Gress Records for presenting one of the best examples ever committed to plastic.
Relatively speaking, it's a straight-ahead jazz set, sent soaring at regular intervals when Gatton and his band Funhouse twist that patented throttle labeled "redneck jazz". And while avid fans might be content with a Dictaphone tape of such a show, the fidelity and balance of the recording is also world class.
"Gatton demonstrates that if he had played jazz exclusively, he could easily have ranked alongside the all time greats - Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, and Wes Montgomery. But to the cognoscenti, that is already the case." --UK Jazz Journal