Steve Waterman: Buddy Bolden Blew It! | CD review

(Mainstem)Despite the title, this session by UK trumpeter Steve Waterman doesn't actually concentrate on the New Orleans funerals-and-marches music proto-jazz legend Buddy Bolden might have played, but it does include the famous West End Blues (one of Louis Armstrong's most astonishing performances) and Bix Beiderbecke's In a Mist. All the tunes are by trumpeters, including Waterman himself, with Dizzy Gillespie's crackling Bebop opening the show, and Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Chet Baker,...

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