"AFTER YOU'VE GONE" The Hot Five Jazzmakers

This is another cut coming from a Saturday jazz club matinee at "C'est what?" at 67 Front St East, Toronto on May 5th 2001. "After You've Gone" is a good vehicle for jazz, as it has a verse, a slow portion, lots of breaks and many solos - everyone gets a turn on this number and we had to chop this version a bit to bring it inside the maximum time span of ten minutes! Trumpet player Andrej Saradin had only recently joined the band, after emigrating to Canada from Slovakia. Another interesting aspect to the session was our guest, Larry Okmin on clarinet. Larry is the leader of the High Society Jazz Band of San Diego and he was in Toronto for a conference - Larry is a qualified orthodontist. The rhythm section is laying down a really solid and swinging beat,just the way I like it, thanks to Reide Kaiser- pno; Colin Bray -bass; Gary Scriven -drums and Roberto Rosenman -acoustic guitar. Roberto played with the Hot Five quite regularly for several months around 2000 to 2001. Now he has his own Saturday matinee show, so we do not see him often anymore. Janet Shaw can be seen on alto sax, out of the spotlight but making herself apparent on her alto and vocal! Other clips from this session on youtube are "Margie" and "Running Wild", where the two reeds play a blazing duet. The 7th member of the Hot Five Jazzmakers is the mathematically challenged leader,Brian Towers on trombone, who leads the song in with the slow verse, which precedes the fireworks to follow!

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• Toronto;
• Hot
• Jazzmakers;
• traditional;
• dixieland;
• classic