The beauty of sadness
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Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Matt Chertkoff, Kyle Koehler, Clark Gayton, Jason Marsalis ... et al.)
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Reviews (2)
AllMusic
2014
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Matt Collar
2014
"Without ever seeming gimmicky or pandering, on 2nd Line Smith Handy finds the perfect balance of foot-tapping New Orleans parade rhythms, exploratory jazz improvisations, and blues-inflected, organ-soaked grooves".
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d. 10. May 2014
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Thomas Conrad
d. 10. May 2014
"[Craig Handy] revisit 10 numbers from the Jimmy Smith songbook; invite heavyweight guests, most from New Orleans. (Smith likes New Orleans second-line rhythms.) The ingredients ignite. Handy's band (Kyle Koehler, B-3; Matt Chertkoff, guitar; Clark Gayton, sousaphone) kicks ass, and the guests catch the vibe. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a jubilant scatting celebration by Dee Dee Bridgewater. Smith's 1965 version of "Got My Mojo Workin'" had a riffing, kicking horn section, his own vocal, and a monster organ workout. Handy's ambitious redo has a better blues singer, Clarence Spady. For horns, it has no less than Wynton Marsalis, deep in Big Easy character, squalling and rasping, and Handy himself, wildly trilling, rocking the house".
