{"id":616,"date":"2000-02-17T22:40:59","date_gmt":"2000-02-17T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=616"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:15:05","slug":"wardell-his-slammin-big-band-maestropiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"WARDELL & HIS SLAMMIN’ BIG BAND: Maestropiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“There is sleek, swinging pop jazz, hip big-band bebop, and the wide-bottomed second-line numbers \u001cTippy \u001d and \u001cHail King Zulu \u001d(a definite candidate for the hallowed Carnival canon with its thrilling James Rivers saxophone excursion).”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Wardell has been leading bands since he formed the Royal Dukes of Rhythm in the mid- \u001950s. In recent years he has fielded a smoking ensemble known as Wardell and his Slammin \u0019 Big Band, an all-star aggregation showcasing his original compositions and arrangements. A 4-track \u001cteaser \u001d CD was issued a year ago, introducing drummer-entrepreneur Bunchy Johnson’s great Wild Indian song, \u001cPass It On \u001d; the hard-swinging \u001c3 Tenors for Moose, \u001d dedicated to WWOZ’s Don \u001cBig Moose \u001d Jamison; and \u001cFrankly Speaking, \u001d Wardell’s tribute to pianist and long-time musical compatriot Ed Frank.<\/p>\n

These tunes and six more songs of equal weight and delight (including two versions of Johnson’s terrific \u001cKiller Joe \u001d homage titled \u001cCrazy Mary \u001d) are finally available to the record-buying public as\u00a0Maestropiece<\/strong>, the orchestra’s premiere full-length CD on Louisiana Red Hot Records. There is sleek, swinging pop jazz ( \u001cEl Pavo, \u001d \u001cSlammin \u0019), hip big-band bebop ( \u001cChip \u001d), and the wide-bottomed second-line numbers \u001cTippy \u001d and \u001cHail King Zulu \u001d (a definite candidate for the hallowed Carnival canon with its thrilling James Rivers saxophone excursion).<\/p>\n

The stellar cast includes Warren Bell Sr., Roderick Paulin, Joe Saulsbury, Julius Hardy and Carl Blouin in the saxophone section; Tracy Griffin, Barney Floyd and Brian Murray among the trumpets; Craig Klein on trombone; the legendary Sam Henry on keyboards; Wardell’s son Brian Quezergue on bass; guitarists Leo Williams and Detroit Brooks; and drummers Bunchy Johnson and Leon Alexander. Quezergue’s crisp, juicy charts are well-played throughout, and the soloists make almost uniformly excellent contributions to the music.” – John Sinclair<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There is sleek, swinging pop jazz, hip big-band bebop, and the wide-bottomed second-line numbers \u001cTippy \u001d and \u001cHail King Zulu \u001d(a definite candidate for the hallowed Carnival canon with its thrilling James Rivers saxophone excursion).” “Wardell has been leading bands since he formed the Royal Dukes of Rhythm in the mid- \u001950s. In recent years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catalogue","category-jazz","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5O8RF-9W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}