This was a fun record to listen to, probably because it’s obvious they were having fun making it. It’s swinging and joyous and oh boy the trumpet playing is fantastic. I am familiar with a lot of the songs because of remakes by contemporary artists and swing music in general is something I enjoy. I just loved the voice of Keely Smith who sang on this (as well as being married to Louis Prima for a time) – I sense a YouTube rabbit hole in my near future.
Jump, Jive, An’ Wail is such a great song so that is my feature.
I have always loved the version by The Brian Setzer Orchestra which is remarkably faithful.
To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first wrote about it here.
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