Coleman Jackson and Johnson GET IT
Nikica Gilic | Zagreb, Croatia | 11/18/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is the album of Bill Coleman's music to get, particularly there are not that many available outside the used CDs and LPs market...
Another is, of course, Django Reinhardt's double CD album with his American friendsDjango and His American Friends, Vol. 1 & 2.
The main fault of this CD is crappy editing of track 2 (why it ends so abruptly - I have no idea) and, admittedly, the head arrangements could have been a bit less loose. But, all in all, the music is really hot and cooking, the musicians (Coleman, Quentin "Butter" Jackson, Budd Johnson...) are going very strong, showing the range of their sound and expressive abilities quite well...
The title is slightly misleading, but the blues feeling does permiate the proceedings - and there's nothing wrong with that if you ask me."