[Dixielandjazz] Tim Laughlin's _The Isle of Orleans_ CD

[Dan Augustine]

Folks--
     My buddy Jeff Van Horn from across the street phoned me about 
halfway through my first beer this evening after work to say he was 
coming over. I said OK.  After all, he's the president of our local 
Austin Traditional Jazz Society, and a good guy.
     He brought over a new CD he'd just gotten, called _The Isle of 
Orleans_ by Tim Laughlin, and he couldn't stop playing it at work. 
("So?")  I put it on the CD player and we sat there, feet tapping, 
heads nodding, fingers jumping, for the first 4 or 5 songs, and i had 
to agree with him--it was great.
     Besides Tim, there's Connie Jones on cornet, Rick Trolsen or 
Lucian Barbarin on trombone, Tom McDermott or John Royen on piano, 
Matt Perrine on bass or sousaphone (good solos, but kind of 
muffled-sounding), Hal Smith on drums, John Eubanks on rhythm guitar, 
Frankie Lynne on banjo, Neil Unterseher on banjo and vocals, Phillip 
Manuel on vocals (some of the vocals by one of these guys have kind 
of the flavor, if not quite the wit, of Jack Sheldon's vocals), and 
Jason Marsalis on vibraphone.
     The tunes all cook like mad, and they're all good tunes, and 
every one of the tunes was written by Tim Laughlin himself.  Some of 
them make you think you're hearing a more famous tune (for example, 
"March of the Uncle Bubbys" sounds like one of the New Orleans 
street-marching songs, i just can't think of which one), but all the 
tunes work.
     So, naturally i logged on to Tim's website and ordered the CD. 
Here's the info: http://timlaughlin.com/ with clips of the tunes at
       http://timlaughlin.com/music.htm#IsleOfOrleans

    Tim Laughlin, "The Isle of Orleans" (Gentilly Records 162) April 2003

     I'm telling you, go get this CD.  I just played it for the third time.

Dan
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