On Revival Day

Kustbandet On Revival Day
STOMP OFF RECORDS CD 1294	NOTES by Richard Hadlock Longtime collectors of 78 RPM records remeber well the thrill of turnign up the occasional obscure item by an unknown group which proved to be a terrific jazz band. It was a great payoff for hours of sorting through piles of gritty rejects. A similar kick awaits the jazz CD collector who has yet to hear Sweden's Kustbandet and its remarkable trumpet soloist Bent Persson. Here is a dedicated, swinging company of able musicians who double as jazz scholars. They know their 'twenties and early 'thirties American music, whether it be called jazz, hot dance, big band, stomp, swing, New Orleans, Ellingtonia, blues or just popular songs of the time. The old days of European attempts at jazz, when rhythm players were wooden and horn sections rendered rigidly "proper" readings of band charts, are fortunately gone forever. Kustbandet could easy be taken for a 1929 teritory band out of, say Dallas or Omaha. This happy sound, as American as a Misssissippi riverboat, now belongs to the world.
Hop Head Jungle Blues Money Blues Do Something That´s My Home Star Dust Gee Baby, (Ain´t I Good To You) Rent Party Blues Hoosier Sweetheart Black And Blue Puttin´ On The Ritz Freeze And Melt Rockin´ Chair That Rhythm Man Patrol Wagon Blues On Revival Day After You´ve Gone	Claes Göran Faxell tp Bent Persson tp arr 5-7 9-10 13-14 16-17 Ola Pålsson tp vo Jens Lindgren tb vo Bo Juhlin btb tu Göran Eriksson as cl arr 2 4 8 11 Jan Åkerman as ss cl John Högman ts bars cl Åke Edenstrand p Göran Lind sbs Hans Gustafsson ban g Christer Ekhé dr vo Keith Nichols arr 1 12 Claus Jacobi arr 3 Rolf Koschorrek arr 15 recorded 1992-4 in Stockholm by Lars Johansson