Bill Allred's Goodtime Jazz Band - Swing That Music (CD)

Lend an ear to Bill Allred\u2019s Goodtime Jazz Band from Orlando, Florida. They might just be \u2013 as one recent review claimed \u2013 \u201Cthe greatest Dixieland band in the world!\u201D Try to isolate what makes Bill Allred\u2019s Goodtime Jazz Band so \u2013 well \u2013 good, and I would come up with three key words: organisation, energy and adventure. Combining the first two is often difficult. Lesser bands who first lay out, then play within a cultivated Dixieland-scape often sound guarded or even hemmed in, as if anxious not to ruffle the grass. Not, of course, how Nick la Rocca, the first jazz punk, saw and heard the music in 1919 or how Eddie Condon did 20 years later.\n\nSeventy years on, it takes musicians as gifted as Allred\u2019s, first to create the written landscape with sensitivity and then play through it like American footballers thundering down the grid. For great examples of this listen to It Don\u2019t Mean A Thing or Limehouse Blues right here. The third quas