Scott Hamilton and Alan Barnes: Hi-Ya | CD review

(Woodville)According to Alan Barnes, all but one of these eight numbers were recorded in single takes. This rarely happens nowadays, although it was once common in jazz. It calls for experience, confidence and a remarkable degree of natural poise – qualities that these two have in cartloads. Hamilton, on tenor saxophone, and Barnes, on alto and baritone, couldn't play an awkward or unswinging phrase if they tried, and their styles dovetail beautifully. Furthermore, there are no old warhorses a...

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