'tales from the blue lounge' is a solid, Juno winning mainstream jazz album that features fine sax, organ and guitar work.
This is the debut instrumental jazz release from Richard Underhill who was the founder of the infamous, audacious and unpr [+]'tales from the blue lounge' is a solid, Juno winning mainstream jazz album that features fine sax, organ and guitar work.
This is the debut instrumental jazz release from Richard Underhill who was the founder of the infamous, audacious and unpredictable Shuffle Demons, and currently leads Blue Rodeo's Bushwhack Horns. The album won a 2003 Juno award, Canada' s version of the Grammys.
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...'tales from the blue lounge' is a stellar effort and well deserving of the Juno kudo. The feeling harkens back to the mid-late 60s jazz in the style of Rollins or Cannonball Adderly. Underhill himself refers to this sound as "modern vintage," an apt description.
The compositions are a somewhat diverse collection of 10 tunes with nothing too outrageous or too mundane - just solid joyful tunes filled with rollicking solos and a delightful feel all around. Some parts are positively Demonesque while others harken back to a New Orleans style.
This is an lp to get lost in and be totally happy about it. Highly recommended! Echo Weekly - Kitchener.Â
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... 'Thankfully, Toronto-based saxophonist Richard Underhill's solo project contains the same kind of impish humour and way with a hook he often displayed as co-founder of the bop-rap ensemble, Shuffle Demons. Together Underhill and fellow saxman Bob Brough swing and swagger through The Old Guys, get bluesy on Blues For Suze and lay down a deep groove on Chillin'Â Strongly recommended. ' #### John Sharpe - SCENE - London.
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'..Underhill returns to his roots with great style and verve. He crafts 10 marvelous originals providing a striking framework for himself and saxophonist Bob Brough to blow on at will.' The Jazz Report, Winter 2003
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"Shuffle Demons fans take note, Richard Underhill, founder of the avant bop-pop group just won a Juno for this, his solo debut instrumental jazz album. Recorded like a '60s-era session
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