The Wolverine Jazz Band JOURNEY
Personnel:
Jeff Hughes - cornet, flugelhorn
Tom Boates - trombone
John Clark - clarinet/baritone and bass saxes
Ross Petot - piano
Jimmy Mazzy - banjo and vocal
Rick MacWilliams - tuba
David Didriksen - drums
Recorded at PBS, Westwood MA
by Peter Kontrimas
March 9, 2008 and November 16, 2008 |
Fidgety Feet
Savoy Blues
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming
Persian Rug
Clarinet Marmalade
Morning Glory
Blues I Like To Hear
Sensation
Blue Prelude
Save It, Pretty Mama
Caravan
Creole Belles
Singing The Blues
Horizontal
Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On |
| Ecce - opus 8 of
the Wolverine Jazz Band. With it, we hope to take you on a
Journey - both geographic and historical. The first tune
suggests our wanderlust while the last brings us back to our early
Jazz home. In between, we visit the East
Caravan and
Persian Rug and, I suppose if we stretch it,
Chicago, specifically, the Savoy Ballroom. True to his contrarian
nature, Jimmy sings two ballads I Ain't Lazy and
Horizontal suggesting repose. The latter is a tune to which
he introduced us from a recording by Pat Flowers featuring a
vocalist named Bunky Pendleton who sounds suspiciously like Lee
Wiley. Historically, we travel from early Ragtime
Creole Belles through the ODJB
Fidgety Feet, Sensation, and
Clarinet Marmalade, Bix
Singing The Blues, Louis
Savoy Blues and
Save It, Pretty
Mama to Basie Blues I Like To Hear
and Duke Morning Glory and
Caravan. Of note are the
features for Jeff and Ross Morning
Glory, Ross Caravan,
Tom Blue Prelude, and yours
truly Clarinet
Marmalade.
In answer to those of you who have wondered why we don't include
more pictures of the band on our recordings, I present these photos
of us taken at the Suncoast Jazz Festival in Clearwater, Florida in
November, 2007. I am sure this will make clear why we don't
include more pictures of the band on our recordings.
John Clark |
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