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Salute to Jelly Roll Morton CD- $9.99
James B. Scott- trumpet
 Al Barthlow- trombone
 Tim Laughlin- clarinet
 Tom McDermott- piano
 Everett Link- bass
 Richard Taylor- drums

Guest Artist:
Danny Barker, guitar and vocals.

CD REVIEW:
By: Ferdinand Maylin- www.jazznow.com

This music is infectious. The band plays most of the numbers with a fine, brash, acetic edge. James B. Scott sounds a mean, dirty horn with a sharp and impressive tongue in Black Bottom Stomp. The piano playing of Tom McDermott in Fingerbreaker was exhilarating - such clean articulation and control - I could see the smoke rising as the piano subsided into the stage floor. Watch out for the full tone of Tim Laughlin on clarinet in Sweet Substitute - its always good for a front man to have a trusted and reliable rhythm section; always in safe hands with this lot. Some good style playing from everyone in Tiajuana and Panama showed how well they integrate with each other.

 Jelly Roll could only be pleased.

SONGS:
1.  Wolverine Blues
2.  Milneburg Joys
3.  Winin' Boy Blues
4.  Don't You Leave Me Here
5.  Buddy Bolden's Blues
6.  Black Bottom Stomp
7.  Fingerbreaker
8.  Kansas City Stomps
9.  King Porter Stomp
10.  Someday Sweetheart
11.  The Pearls
12.  Tiajuana
13.  Sweet Substitute
14.  New Orleans Joy
15.  Grandpa's Spells
16.  Panama