Harry Allen & Randy Sandke with the Rias Big Band - Turnstile – Music Of The Trumpet Kings
Harry Allen (tenor sax), Randy Sandke (trumpet), with the RIAS Big Band Berlin
Jiggs Whigham (director, leader), Soren Fischer (trombone), John Marshall (trombone), Andy Grossman (trombone), Till Brönner (trumpet), Greg Bowen (trumpet), Dieter Bilsheim (trumpet), Christian Grabandt (trumpet), Gregoire Peters (saxophone), Klaus Marmulla (saxophone), Walter Gauchel (saxophone), Ingo Cramer (guitar) and others.
Tracklisting:
01. I Love Louis
02. Cloudy
03. Echoes Of Harlem
04. Little Jazz Boogie
05. I Can't Get Started
06. Melancholy Rhapsody
07. Randy's Rolls Royce
08. Shaw 'Nuff
09. All Blues
10. Turnstile
11. Relaxin' At Clifford's
12. The Moontrane
13. Bird Like
Recorded 1998 in Berlin.
24 bit digitally re-mastered 2006 in Hamburg.

Most of the recordings put out by the German Nagel-Heyer label are pre-bop, ranging from Dixieland to mainstream. This outing stretches the boundaries a little, for trumpeter Randy Sandke (who is joined by tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and a big band led by Jiggs Whigham) pays tribute to a variety of great trumpeters ranging from Louis Armstrong to Woody Shaw ("The Moontrane") and Freddie Hubbard ("Bird Like"). Sandke contributed a pair of originals, arranged all 13 pieces, and helped bring a forgotten (and only partly composed) Bix Beiderbecke composition ("Cloudy") to life. In addition to those mentioned, Sandke pays tribute to Cootie Williams, Roy Eldridge, Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Buck Clayton, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Clifford Brown. He hints at their styles without actually copying them, and has a flexible enough approach to sound comfortable in all of the idioms. Recommended.
(Scott Yanow, All Music Guide)
This CD a reissue of NHCD 037 with high-resolution 24 bit digital remastering.
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