Blues in Our Heart [Import]

David Ostwald | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Qualiton Imported Labels
• ASIN: B000253BYK
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,063,383 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jubilee Stomp

2. When Day Is Gone

3. Don't Forget to Mess Around

4. Lover, Come Back to Me

5. Thou Swell

6. Someday, Sweetheart

7. Panama

8. 'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So

9. Blues in My Heart

10. New Orleans Stomp

11. Changes

12. Who's It

13. Home

14. Diga Diga Doo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blues in Our Heart-David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band, December 7, 1999

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Ralph Rosen (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues in Our Heart (Audio CD)

This is a spectacular set from start to finish, featuring a tight, polished, above all *swinging* band that explores New Orleans and Swing tunes with as much imagination and joy as reverence. Although the pieces are all classics, there's none of that "museum quality" that so often mars other performances of this repertoire. Sure, the influences are there--Bix, Louis, Dickenson, etc., and some fine Mortonesque pianism--but these musicians have assimilated the entire history of jazz on their respective instruments and offer us a true New Orleans style for our own age.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Blues, November 26, 1999

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André Aciman (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues in Our Heart (Audio CD)

This magnificent recording takes you to the very heart and best of Jazz music. It's all there: from sprightly Duke Ellington to hauntingly meditative Robert Katscher, to the undying magic of Louis Armstrong. This is not just a collection of timeless pieces, but it is in its own right a timeless recording. Bravo David Ostwald.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb. Roll on Vol 2, November 10, 1999

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Kenneth J Waters ([e-mail]) (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues in Our Heart (Audio CD)

If your idea of jazz is from its inception to early swing, don't think twice about this release. Every track is a gem with music associated with the Hot Five, Oliver and Ellington amongst others. Superb musicians who are well established as players in their own right but listen to the influences - the Bixish lead of Sandke, the Benny plus of Peps and the ebullient Wells/Dickenson trombone of Wycliffe Gordon. Great rhythm with the leader's punchy brass bass. Wonderful to hear Howard Alden in Reser mode on tenor banjo. Lovely single string runs on Jubilee stomp and Panama, which is mostly performed as a duet of clarinet and banjo. Above all the musicians convey a great sense of the enjoyment of playing together. Recommended without reservation. Buy it. Let's look forward hopefully to further compilations from this great band.