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Music featured on October 20, 2001
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We heard titles from a new and stupendous release on the Kenneth label from Classic Jazz Productions, featuring Swedish trumpeter Bent Persson and his Royal Blue Melodians. Bent, who has an uncanny ear for evoking the sound and timbre of Louis Armstrong's horn, plays arrangements recorded by Armstrong from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. We heard "That Rhythm Man," Look What You've Done To Me," and "Will You, Wont You Be My Babe?" The second title is one of two tunes on the CD that we know Armstrong recorded, but the masters were never issued. Using stock orchestrations of these numbers, Bent has tried to fashion the sort of presentation that the Carroll Dickerson Orchestra with Louis might have delivered. The CD is titled "For the Love of Satchmo: Bent Persson with the Royal Blue Melodians." Eddie Jansson provides some straight-forward vocals. It's Kenneth CKS 3416. |
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