[Dixielandjazz] Brian Carpenter & Ghost Train Orchestra - interesting new old OKOM!

[david richoux]

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/07/135045403/brian-carpenter-eclectic-jazz-rooted-in-americana

Inspired mainly by Tiny Parham and other 1920s Harlem and Chicago big
little bands.

His website: http://briancarpenter.net/content/ghosttrain-music.html

I like!

Dave Richoux

>From the Boston Globe:
Trumpeter Brian Carpenter of Arlington is known as the founder of
avant-jazz group Beat Circus, though he’s also a singer, actor, radio
producer, and filmmaker. His latest project, Ghost Train Orchestra,
grew out of his stint as music director for Voltaic Vaudeville, the
Regent Theatre’s 90th birthday celebration. “Hothouse Stomp,’’ the
resultant album, is a trip through 1920s Chicago and Harlem. Carpenter
selected, transcribed, arranged, and conducted tunes made semi-famous
by bands that have faded into semi-obscurity — Charlie Johnson’s
Paradise Orchestra, Tiny Parham and His Musicians, and others. Ghost
Train Orchestra infuses a postmodern sensibility into the oompah
construct of “Stop Kidding’’ and gets slow and sensual on “Hot
Tempered Blues.’’ When clarinet, tuba, banjo, violin, viola, trumpet,
trombone, saxophones, and drums get all drowsy on “Gee Baby, Ain’t I
Good to You?’’ then play like demented Muppets on “Lucky 3-6-9,’’ one
must stop and remind oneself: This crazy-beautiful living-history
lesson sprang from Brian Carpenter’s mind. Wow. (Out now) STEVE
GREENLEE