Jazz is a musical art form that was bred out of slave music that had been turned into gospel as the slaves were pushed into finding religion. The instrumentation is skilled and technical despite the lack of formal training that they went through. Jazz was the music of the soul – it all came from the heart. The words that were song or the vocalizations were rarely written and were just born out of the feeling of the music that was played. After a time certain areas became known for their Jazz clubs like New Orleans or Atlanta.
I can’t say if I think Out to Lunch is strict Jazz. It’s more of a mixture of Jazz, Ragtime, Boogey and a little Creole Soul thrown in there for good measure. You hear a lot of good trumpeting, some snazzy blues drum work and soulful doo-whop but there is, for whatever reason, electric piano. Call me a purest but I love REAL piano work. I love the sound of a piano being played – I don’t care for how an electric piano sounds. They remind me an awful lot of bad church music. They take away from the purity of the music. Believe me – there is a lot of purity here.
Out to Lunch are very skilled musicians and I would love to chill at a Jazz bar with them. It would be a great evening. If you like Jazz or the combination of several Jazz, Blues and Soul standards then you sure will not be disappointed in Out to Lunch’s CD – unless you really can’t get past the use of electric piano on some of the tunes. But hey – that’s why they invented the track skip button, right? In any case – the music is tight, well done and all around plain good.
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