That Salty Dog: Pat Hawes
PERSONNEL
Pat Hawes (pno vcls); Alan Elsdon (tpt); Geoff Dubber (reeds); Mike
Pointon (tmb); John Rodber (str bs); Rex Bennett (drms).
TRACKS
Lazy Piano Man + Salty Dog + It had To Be You + Farewell to Storyville
+ Sweet Patootie + Wild Man Blues + Down in Jungle Town + The Glory of Love +
Oh! Peter + Shine + Minnie the Moocher + My Gal Sal + See See Rider + C-Jam
Blues.
Recorded on the 6th of March 2000 at the Riverside Arts
Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames, England.
Recording Engineer: Dave Bennett. Mastering: Bill Bissonnette.
Jazz Crusade, 585 Pond Street, Bridgeport, CT 06606 USA. Jccd-3055: Time 71.30 minutes.
Reviewed on Windows 2000 Professional, MusicMatch Player.
Here we have a medley of which I’ll call a dozen plus two, of well
known classic jazz tunes played by a half dozen of England’s finest Traditional
jazz jazzmen in their fields.
Pianist Pat Hawes with unique cultivated vocals, customized with
brimstone and fire, yet, on the foundation, with flight of the butterfly,
creates the character and ambiance of the album. All musicians create a spontaneous feeling of improvised
jazz. With clarity of recording sound
the album swings to an infectious warm sounding, lilting like beat.
With Big Band; Morton; Armstrong; New Orleans; Cabaret styled music
inherent, the CD is choice for a wide palette of today’s listeners. With tracks on it played by past jazz
artists such as Freddie Keppard, Johnny Dodds, Henry “Red” Allen, and, with songs
made famous by Clara Smith, Cab Calloway, this album, That Salty Dog by Pat
Hawes and his compatriot British jazz artists, who in his liner notes, notes
that he was delighted in having a grand piano at his finger tips to play
on. It shows, indeed it does.
I extend appreciation to the American producer of this That Salty
Dog album
for enabling us learn how professionally these musicians this side of “The
Pond” have projected to great heights his country’s eminent jazz giants’
musical artwork of yesteryear.
Ian King