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Ron Kearns and Buck Hill--great combination!

Wayne Johnson | 02/21/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Buck Hill is one of my favorite saxophone players. I wasn't familiar with Ron Kearns until this recording. I heard them together on the radio playing Blue Train and loved it. Once I got the CD I found out that I loved Ron Kearns, Ken Reed and Eric Byrd almost as much as I love Buck Hill. I hope they'll be coming to the Chicago area soon (my Mom lives in Maryland and that's where I first heard Buck Hill and this recording). I highly recommend this to anyone who likes old style acoustic jazz."

Warmth in Cold Weather

Wayne Johnson | St. Paul, MN | 03/11/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm in Minnesota and it's cold. I just got my Ron Kearns CD and it's HOT. I saw him live here in St. Paul and asked him how he got something new out of the old standards he put on the CD and he said that he tried to put as much of himself into each song as possible. It works. There wasn't really a lot of difference hearing him live than on the CD. It sounded like they were having fun on the CD and the pictures inside showed them laughing but live, they made you enjoy what they were doing becasue you could tell they did. I LOVE this CD."