What do you get when you when you cross a guitarist with a trumpet player? An organ/piano combo of course!
At least that's what's happened here. Zaitz left his guitar in the boot of his car (hope it's still there) in favour of giving his 1961 C3 a work out. Kavuma didn't take any such chances, as a precaution, he brought his horn into the studio. Will Cleasby set up his kit and they were off. Both guitarist and trumpet player seemingly equally at home on their respective doublers.
Not surprisingly there's a Blue Note/Prestige feel about most of the tracks although Lockdown Blues brings us bang up to date and Zaitz's bluesy solos indicates just how things were and how, in true British tradition, we masked up and got on with it. The way things are going, those masks could well be replaced by gas masks.
Kavuma, switched to trumpet for the delightful, yet plaintive, Mia's Waltz. The background to this I think is explained in the notes accompanying the CD. I will elaborate further after I've been to a high street optician where, I'm told by the media, I should already have gone to.
Illegible album notes, or 20-20 vision, what counts is what you hear and I heard good. Lance
Evidence; Cedar Tree; 'Round Midnight; Lockdown Blues; Mia's Waltz; Church.
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