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共12首歌曲

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艺人

Kermit Ruffins

语种

英语

厂牌

Basin Street

发行时间

1999年04月20日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Michael G. Nastos

New Orleans trumpeter/vocalist Ruffins concentrates on good time jive and swing, with a big band taste and second-line influence on this CD with his group, the Barbeque Kings. His bright trumpet sound and slightly Louis Armstrong-inflected vocal style is complemented by his band of fellow young jazzmen, the most distinctive being trombonist Corey Henry. Ruffins wrote four of the 12 selections: &Treme Second Line& (Blow Da Whistle),& &Can't Take My Baby Nowhere,& and &Hide the Reefer& are silly goof numbers, the latter with a Gene Krupa rhythm. The title track is a bopping instrumental where Ruffins, Henry, and tenor saxophonist Roderick Paulin get to blow a little. Ed Frank's &Fruit Punch& is also a swinging instrumental with promising solos. Ruffins cops Eddie Jefferson's lyric on &Things Are Getting Better,& adding a peanut vendor line. He sings &Ain't Misbehavin'& and &Bucket's Got a Hole in It& with that self-effaced Satchmo charm. Additional horns turn the ensemble into a big band sound for &Ma, He's Makin' Eyes at Me& and &But Not for Me.& Six-year-old Neshia Ruffins and seven-year-old Christina Ruffins join four-year-old Milan Arriola on a truly kiddish &This Little Light of Mine,& and the CD kicks with a true New Orleans trad classic, &Bogalusa Strut.& As he matures, Ruffins should grow out of camp into pure musical value. This is a quite an entertaining recording.