Another novelty record with real musical substance, which seems to be pianist Ted Kooshian's specialty. The contributions of saxophonist/clarinetist Jeff Lederer are invaluable to this music, which revamps the "Captain Kangaroo" theme, a train-inspired piece of light music by Edward White, into a Trane-inspired, odd-metered juggernaut. The "Spider-Man" theme is reimagined as a blues with a wailing clarinet solo, compared to which the sparkling 4/4 swing of the "Top Cat" theme seems almost prosaic.
The longer I stay in Kooshian's pop culture saturated musical world, the more I like it.
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