Great Listening
11/07/1998
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If you like gospel and jazz, you will love this CD. It sounds just like you think the old time gospels would sound. Jim Cullums band just moves it up a notch higher. Great instrumentals and vocal solos. A must have for both jazz and gospel fans. If you want a preview of Jim Cullums Jazz Band, check out River Walk on National Public Radio, that's where I first heard him and have been a Jim Cullum fan ever since."
DEEP RIVER, Jim Cullum Jazz Band
Eddina Symns | Hutchinson, Kansas | 11/10/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This album is SO WONDERFUL that I can't find words great enough!
It is soulful, brilliant, jazzy, -- timeless.
I have many albums, and several by Jim Cullum's band, but this is
my favorite.
EVAN CHRISTOPHER is THE best clarinetist I have ever heard!
Such a variety of tone, from sweet to raucous, slow and mournful to
quick, free, and gleeful.
The Ave Maria is my favorite of ALL arrangements I have ever heard of
that piece.
Arrangements on all of the album are done by a real genius, as well
as by a group of very skilled professionals, able to produce the "once in a lifetime" performance, typical of true Dixieland music.
Eddina Symns, Hutchinson, Kansas
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A true gift of joy.
P. M. Summer | Dallas, Texas USA | 10/20/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"For years, Jim Cullum led a band for Cursillo Closing Masses, weaving traditional music from the Eucharistic liturgy with Dixieland into something joyful and wonderful. This recording captures that spirit in a live performance with performers who believe in what they are playing and singing.
This CD is worth the cost for Cullum's Dixieland rendition of the Sanctus from Schubert's German Mass. Amazing stuff!"