If you're sitting in the house with the curtains drawn and the lights out on October 31 then the time is right for you to listen to Spooky Jazz Vol. 2 (with the headphones on). Thus you will avoid the hordes of feral children knocking on your door and menacingly offering you the choice between 'trick or treat'. This will enable you to celebrate Halloween whilst listening to some killer-diller hot music.
Gill creates the phantasmagoric mood the concept demands to the extent that maybe listening in the dark isn't such good idea after all! Even some of the solos are likely to have you hiding under the bed. Davis' screaming, growling blast on My Man's an Undertaker, coupled with the line 'he's got a coffin just your size' could have you loading up the silver bullets.
When not scaring the pants off the listener, Hannah's doing just that to any wannabe singers in her audience. Away from Halloween, back in 2019, I heard her at Sage Gateshead with Postmodern Jukebox and was as knocked out then as I am now.
Apart from the vocals, Ricky Alexander blows walkin' the bar tenor, Terracciano plays hot fiddle, Poindexter's blues drenched guitar picking is straight out of a mid-west juke joint, Webster and his rhythmic henchmen are the perfect musical pallbearers and Davis, like fellow multi-instrumentalist Colin Hancock on another Turtle Bay recording, also made his mark over here at the Classic Jazz Party and his plunger choruses spook everyone - even Hard Hearted Hannah - a different Hannah to the one singing I hasten to add!
Now here's the good news - it is well worth listening to at any time of year. Lance
I'd Rather be Burned as a Witch; My Man's an Undertaker; Love is a Necessary Evil; Hummin' to Myself; Love Your Spell is Everywhere (Transylvanian Lullaby); Oogie's Song; You Hurt Me; Hard Hearted Hannah; That Old Black Magic; Haunted House Blues; Shine on Harvest Moon.
Available now - check out on BANDCAMP.
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