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5.0 out of 5 stars
Tremendous Traditional Jazz from some of the Greartest, September 6, 2003
This review is from: Rex Stewart & The Ellingtonians (Audio CD)
A great reissue from Riverside's Limited Edition Series archives, there are 3 different "groups" represented her. The first 4 tracks which comprise Side One - also released on aJapanese import import entitled "Big Jazz 1940", 'everybodys 10/10' feature Rex with Lawrence Brown, Barney Bigard, Billy Kyle, Brick Fleagle, Wellman Braud, and Dave Tough, from 1940, under the name Rex Stewart's Big Seven. Side Two is from 1946, and features Cozy Cole, Otto Hardwick, Harry Carney, and Shelley Manne, among others - billed as both Rex Stewart's Big Four, and Jimmy Jones' Big Eight. This is all Traditional jazz, Swing, if you like, and very Ellingtonian in favor, other than the first four, which are pure Traditional.
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