Billy Jenkins: Jazz Gives Me the Blues – review

(VOTP)Billy Jenkins is a joker. He takes the mickey – not out of jazz but out of jazz cliches. The easy way would be to play badly, but his way is to get everything going, sounding rather good and perfectly serious until… whoops! He is abetted by his Trio Blues Suburbia, the superb Jim Watson on organ, saxophonist Finn Peters and drummer Mike Pickering, who create the kind of subdued groove that some other musicians strive for and never quite achieve. My favourite track is "I'm Just a Lucky ...

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