Some good old down home bluesy funkified soul as typified by 1960s Blue Note artists such as Jimmy Smith, McDuff and McGriff mixed in with some standards and The Beatles' Norwegian Wood which I suppose these days can also be classed as a standard.
Five trio tracks - the standards - and three quartet work outs on Witzel originals. It's music to listen to, to dance to, to imagine you're in a bar, not necessarily a jazz joint, back then in any big American city, although probably not Nashville.
In this case we're in
the Bay Area of Northern California and it's not 1962 it's 2022 but the
feelin' is there with perhaps more polish.
However, don't get the idea that this is a 'smoothie' - when any of the four let their hair down (which is most of the time) the earth moves.
They may not be household names in the UK and known only to the perceptive few outside of their home state in the US but, if this gets the coverage it deserves then that could certainly change. Lance
Feelin' It; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Norwegian Wood; Beyond Beijing; I Loves You, Porgy; If Ever I Would Leave You; Ms. Information; The Old Country.
SAMPLES. Available Sept. 30.
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