Treasury Volume 3 is pianist, historian Waldo's third* and final exploration of early jazz and ragtime and, like the previous two, features the best of Gotham City's hot musicians working in and around NYC.
It's a stomping, strutting, shimmying Dixieland clambake that's a potent mix of Chicago, New Orleans, Frisco and Whitley Bay. Yes, Whitley Bay deserves a mention as Fryer, Davis and Hancock are not unknown at the Classic Jazz Party (see right hand column) and it was only last week that Paxton was just up the road at Gosforth Civic Theatre.
As well as their chosen instruments, Waldo, Fryer, Lepley and Davis have vocals and there's a kazoo in there too although I don't know who the perpetrator is.
It's what used to be called Good Time Jazz which is still a pretty good description. It doesn't open any locked doors or pursue new horizons - or does it? Perhaps it may introduce a form of jazz to an audience who think it all began with Miles at Glastonbury.
A word of warning - if you buy Volume 3 you won't be able to stop yourself blowing the housekeeping on Volumes 1 & 2. Lance
Minnie the Mermaid: Canal
Street Blues; Alice Blue Gown; Take Me Back; Frog-I-More Rag; Mabel's Dream; Kansas
City Stomp; Louisiana Fairy Tale; Buddy's Habits; Memphis Blues; Black Bottom
Stomp
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