Jack Teagarden & Bobby Hackett - Complete Fifties Studio Recordings [Jack Teagarden & Bobby Hackett]

Here you have two definitive traditional blowing sessions led by chief exponents of the Eddie Condon school of Chicago jazz. Originally issued as Coast Concert, this smart album of old-style standards played by cornetist Bobby Hackett's jazz band blends trombonists Abe Lincoln and Jack Teagarden in a front line spiked with the clarinet of Matty Matlock. The solid rhythm section is anchored by Phil Stephens, who handles both the upright bass and the tuba. This session, recorded in Los Angeles on October 18 and 19, 1955, fairly bristles with upbeat Dixieland struts and stomps. Read More