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JAZZ FIDDLERS
``(N)EVERGREENS''
Panton [Czechoslovakia] 81 0784-1511, 1988
LP rip (320 kbps) by Dick Baker, February 2015
STRANA 1 - SIDE ONE
1 Richard Woods
SHE IS THE GREAT, GREAT GIRL [Actually, ``She's a . . .''] 2:42
2 Red Nichols [actually, Bix Beiderbecke]
DAVENPORT BLUES 3:00
BIG BUTTER & EGG MAN 2:42
4 Philip Braham / Douglas Furber
LIMEHOUSE BLUES 3:24
5 Sidney Bechet
BLUES IN THE AIR 5:24
6 Lindsay McPhail / Walter Michels
SAN 2:58
ALL BY MYSELF 3:40
STRANA 2 - SIDE TWO
8 Edgar Dowell / Mamie Medina
THAT DA-DA STRAIN 3:25
9 Nathaniel Shilkret / Gene Austin
LONESOME ROAD 2:55
10 Ted Shapiro / Jimmy Campbell/ Reginald Connelly
IF I HAD YOU 2:35
11 Coleman Hawkins
VOODTE 4:30
12 Harold Arlen
RAISIN' THE RENT 4:35
13 Billy Strayhorn
EASY GOING BOUNCE 3:16
JAZZ FIDDLERS
PETR KAREN - leader, alto and soprano saxophone (1, 2, 4-13)
PETR HASMAN - cornet (1-11, 13)
In the mid-1980s, the Jazz Fiddlers took a pause in their career, to reflect on their previous paths and to decide in which direction to continue. They came to the unequivocal decision to concentrate their attention--without exaggerated emphasis on any one limited style--on the jazz of the period from the 1920s to the 1940s. Foremost in their interest is the attempt to capture a total musical feeling; no longer are they trying to mimic the exact sound of the legendary foreign groups, nor to copy solos of international stars, nor to reproduce famous arrangements. This is why the Fiddlers purposefully avoid well-known themes and compositions--those played by practically all Dixieland groups--even when their audience requests. They also refuse to indulge in any extra-musical ``show'' on stage, and they completely refute the usual recipe for success for less-experienced groups: to play as fast, high and loud as possible. Instead, they insist on a good balance of improvised solos and arranged tutti choruses, and they are the happiest when they can play in a space with good enough acoustics so that no amplification is needed. That is why this record is recorded ``raw,'' without reverb or other electronic ``tricks'' which usually artificially color a group's sound.
And why is the record called (N)evergreens? Because it contains mostly pieces which have all the qualities it takes to become a ``classic'' but which are often neglected. The Jazz Fiddlers chose them mainly because they themselves like them so much--for like real aficionados, they play for their own pleasure. And what makes it even better is that, at the same time, they bring that pleasure to so many listeners.
Recorded at the FISYO Studio, Prague, June 1987
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