Release Date: 06 May 2002
Label: Jasmine Records
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 604988062823
Genres: Jazz
Description
Like almost all jazz musicians of his generation, Bill Coleman's first inspiration was Louis Armstrong. By the early 1930s he was a professional musician working with the bands of Charlie Johnson and Lucky Millinder, and recording with the young Fats Waller.
Sadly, he gained the title of the most underrated swing trumpeter simply because most of his working life was spent outside of America, mainly in France.
Oddly, he didn't visit England until the 1960s, but professionally captured in 1967is the superb concert presented here, over 85 minutes of brass mastery from a sometimes overlooked master.
Tracklisting
The Mighty Sparrow
Skip James
Ricky Valance
Ethel Waters
Gene & Eunice
Harold Burrage
Bill Carlisle & The Carlisles
Alberta Slim
Peter Erskine, Danny Grissett
Andres Jimenez Trio
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Stan Getz
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Elizete Cardoso
Omar Sosa
