Scott Hamilton/Alan Barnes: Hi-Ya | Jazz review

(Woodville)This is the follow up to the American swing-tenorist Scott Hamilton and British multi-saxist Alan Barnes's Zootcase. This time, Barnes chooses favourites associated with the late Duke Ellington altoist Johnny Hodges, a teenage inspiration. This kind of loping, lyrical mainstream swing has been Hamilton's stock in trade since the 1960s, but his savouring of tonal subtleties, and effortless hipness about when to push the beat and when to dawdle behind it reinvigorates a style that had b...

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