Digging Douce Ambiance in the podcast - new from The Aviary

As the proven antithesis to rigor mortis we are swinging in the podcast delightedly to 'Douce Ambiance' rendered so immaculately from The Aviary in their take on Django Reinhardt's 1943 number - Tobie Medland doing the Stéphane Grappelli lines to …

Published: 14 Oct 2022. Updated: 9 months.

As the proven antithesis to rigor mortis we are swinging in the podcast delightedly to 'Douce Ambiance' rendered so immaculately from The Aviary in their take on Django Reinhardt's 1943 number - Tobie Medland doing the Stéphane Grappelli lines to a tee with his confrères on Apparitions - Future Fable Records - guitarists Bim Williams, Sol Grimshaw and bassist Marcus Penrose. The rendition takes us back to hearing Grappelli himself in the Operetka - now the Roma - on Nowogrodzka in Warsaw where fine vessel of the music in periodical form Jazz Forum used to be based nestled high upstairs.

More reading on the same theme:

- Yvonne Bauer's inspired documentary about Tcha Limberger

- Harry Diplock and Jeremie Coullon live in Two For The Road at Ronnie Scott's

Sadly Le QuecumBar, London's only gypsy jazz nightly spot, closed down earlier this year

Tobie Medland, photo: press.

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Emmet Cohen, Uptown in Orbit, Mack Avenue ***

''No, you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you'll get what you need.'' Stride is the name of the game. With the pianist Emmet Cohen are bassist Russell Hall and drummer Kyle Poole plus trumpeter Sean Jones

Published: 14 Oct 2022. Updated: 18 months.

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''No, you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you'll get what you need.''

Stride is the name of the game. With the pianist Emmet Cohen are bassist Russell Hall and drummer Kyle Poole plus trumpeter Sean Jones and saxophonist Patrick Barclay. The tracks with the horns are most involving. Did Uptown in Orbit move me? Not really hand on heart but it's not that kind of record more one where you admire the musicianship more than most and even more than that do a helluva a lot of time travelling and wishing you were around in New York when stride was new.

And yet the style itself despite notable efforts has dated more than most. Cohen is a master of the idiom as is perfectly clear to anyone who has followed his work on or offline in recent years and this latest record continues a remarkable studio streak.

Material includes Cohen and Poole originals plus work by Willie “The Lion” Smith (1939's 'Finger Buster'), Neal Hefti, Cedar Walton, Gerry Mulligan and Duke Ellington. 'My Love Will Come Again' featuring a gorgeous horn line from Sean Jones answered achingly by Barclay is along with 'Finger Buster' streaming ahead of the album's 28 October release. SG