Big band...sound, in any event. Six reeds and drummer Peter Erskine. Macchia did the arrangements for a sax sextet a long time ago and finally got to record them, and some new ones, with a bunch of pro-phuker on-call L.A. reedistas, including Eric Marienthal.
Down By the Riverside is a very New Orleans second line rendering as is Java, big time. Beautiful version of My One and Only Love with Gene Cipriano on bari carrying it. They do more interesting things with Working Day and Night than Michael Jackson ever did, I venture. Duke and Juan Tizol would have dug the version of Caravan, which just popped the word intricate into my mind. Eminently swinging Shortening Bread, thoroughly bluesy Creole Love Song (Marienthal's closing solo is just soaked in the blues), odd but intriguing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot that begins noirish and ends choir-like. This is boffo music.
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