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	Chuck Hedges Just Jammin Genres: Jazz, Pop This is indeed a special alliance as John Bunch, a melodist of the first order, joins hands across the sea with Britishers Dave Green on bass and Steve Brown on drums to create another exciting recording, performed after h... more » « less
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All Artists: Chuck Hedges
Title: Just Jammin
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Arbors Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2002
Re-Release Date: 11/5/2002
Genres: Jazz, Pop
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 780941127324, 780941127324

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This is indeed a special alliance as John Bunch, a melodist of the first order, joins hands across the sea with Britishers Dave Green on bass and Steve Brown on drums to create another exciting recording, performed after hours in London's Pizza Express, confirming his place in the top rank of contemporary pianists.

CD Reviews

Hedges' Sextet Really Swings

Steve Emerine | Tucson, AZ United States | 12/11/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Chuck Hedges leads a fine sextet for 75 minutes of swing on his third CD for the Arbors label, and it will remind you of another clarinetist who had great success with small groups as well as big bands. But this is no Benny Goodman cover recording. Hedges. vibraphonist Bucky Buckwalter, guitarist Dave Sullivan, pianist Gary Meisner, bassist Mike Britz and drummer Andy LoDuca are definitely 21st century practitioners of classic swing, and they stretch well beyond the three-minute constraints the Goodman sextet faced when it recorded at 78 rpm. Highlights include a nine-plus-minute version of "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You," six minutes of "Midnight Sun," "Samba These Days" (a Latin version of "Some of These Days") and a Hedges-Sullivan showcase on "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart." Hedges is outstanding throughout, and as you listen, you'll look several times for the name of the vibes player. It's Buckwalter. He's terrific, and so is this CD."