With the exception of Jim Ydstie the above names are well known to BSH readers in both the north east and the north west as first class exponents of classic jazz frequently appearing at the Keswick Jazz and Blues Festival, Carlisle Jazz Club, Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party and the Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club in various formations including Pete Horsfall's Basin Street Brawlers and the strangely named Frog and Henry who played a fine session at the Black Swan in Sept. 2019. There were, of course, several livestreams over the next couple of years.
Bleach who plays tenor, alto, soprano and clarinet on this cutely titled album, is firmly entrenched in the Hawkins, Hodges, Bechet school with that wide vibrato so predominant in those pre-Lester days although he does quote Lester Young as one of his inspirations (Bechet is the other).
On piano, Good is everything his name suggests and more. Wheatley spells Kelly on Deep Purple - both guitarists have the idiom off to a tee - and Ydstie is laid back and super supportive.
Close your eyes and you could be drinking gin from a teacup up in Harlem or quaffing pints of real ale in a hotel near Whitley Bay.
If you like your jazz with a minimum of flattened fifths then this is for you. It's relaxing and yet stimulating. Lance
Available March 11- www.ewanbleach.com
Body and Soul; Deep Purple; Memories of You; You and the Night and the Music; Prelude to a Kiss; Si Tu Vois Ma Mère; When I Grow Too Old to Dream; The Very Thought of You; The Nearness of You.
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