Shuffle Play: COME and HEAR

From: IAJRC Journal | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: Kremsky, Stuart | Copyright information

Reissues

J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding made it all sound so easy, but of course it's not. How could it be, to play an unwieldy instrument so smoothly and in tandem. But easy is how it sounds throughout Trombone For Two, a Mosaic Single reissue of two early Columbia Lps. With state-of-the-mid-Fifties-art rhythm sections employed on the three sessions that went into the original albums, there's a lot here to keep your toes tapping, your mind engaged, and put a smile on your face. Pure p...

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