Wild Life

Monsbourgh & His Late Hour Boy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 25, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jazzology
• ASIN: B000000QER
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #790,716 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sir Henry Cracked It

2. More Than Good Lookin'

3. Don't Monkey With It

4. Exactly Like You

5. More Than Good Lookin'

6. My Monday Date

7. Wild Life

8. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll

9. My Buddy

10. Sweet Georgia Brown

11. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight

12. All Steamed Up

13. Baby Won't You Please Come Home

14. Piping Hot

15. Won't You Come Over To My House Baby

16. No Escape

17. All Of Me

18. I Cried For You

19. Smoke Up

20. Turnup A Card

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeper from Downunder, June 23, 2006

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John C. Graham (toronto, ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild Life (Audio CD)

Really a wonderful cd, full of loose and relaxed small group interplay in the traditional mode. Ade is an elder statesman of Australian jazz whose influences have long ago been distilled into his own distinct way of playing. This disc compiles a number of sessions he's put together with other unique world class players including Bob Barnard, Graham Coyle, Roger Bell, Len Barnard, Ian Pearce, Neville Stribling, and others. There are never more than two horn players on each of the 21 tunes compiled here. The earliest tune is from 1949, the latest from 1970. The audio quality is really exceptional. It could have all been recorded yesterday. If this sounds good so far, it's still not the major selling point....which is the phenomenal musicianship on this disc.
Ade plays clarinets, saxophones, valve trombone, piano, and washboard with an uncanny individual stamp on each. His playing flows effortlessly from melody to break or improvisation. There are strong indicators, in what you hear, that he's having a ball doing it. Bob Barnard's trumpet sounds great as well, even at this early stage of his development. Bob, of course, has become a major figure and premier cornet player in traditional and mainstream jazz today. All the other players contribute magnificently making the whole disc a standout. There is a particular happy and funfilled quality to the music that sets it apart from everything else. Chalk it up to youthful exuberance. Chalk it up to good old Australian know how. Whatever the case, it's exceptional music that deserves a seat alongside your Armstrongs and Ellingtons. Heartily RECOMMENDED.