Artist: Royal Garden Trio
Item Condition:
New in original wrap
Format: CD
Release Date: 2005
Label: CD Baby
UPC: 825346848129
Genre: Jazz
12 Album Tracks
1. There'll Come a Time (Wait & See)
2. The Viper's Dream
3. On a Slow Boat to China
4. Swing '02
5. Come Sunday
6. Undecided
7. Spain
8. At the Jimmy's Bar
9. Miss Bliss
10. Jitterbug Waltz
11. East of the Sun
12. Raggin' the Scale
Group returns with ambitious,
original treat By Chris Rietz
For the Lansing State Journal
Published January 20, 2005 CD
review: Royal Garden Trio
It's the group's second album,
with the same non-title as the
first; but Michigan's
Royal Garden Trio
has managed
to make an ambitious,
broad-ranging album that
surpasses even it's first
and that's no mean trick.
In fact, RGT's vigorous
musical hybrid
blending the Parisian cafe
with the American nightclub
manages to be fresh &
original without being exotic;
a rarity anywhere and nearly
unheard of in jazz.
The boys bring an array of
guests aboard this time,
starting with string bassist
Gian Paulo, who gives an
already thick trio sound
(thanks to Mike Karoub's cello)
even more punch. Ann Arbor jazz
stalwart James Dapogny lends his
piano to a couple of tracks,
too, along with trumpeter
Jon-Erik Kellso and others.
Group returns with ambitious,
original treat By Chris Rietz
For the
Published
CD review: Royal Garden Trio
It's the group's second album,
with
the same non-title as the first;
but
has managed to make an ambitious,
broad-ranging album that surpasses
even it's first - and that's no mean trick.
In fact, RGT's vigorous musical hybrid
blending the Parisian cafe with
the American nightclub manages
to be fresh & original
without being exotic
a rarity anywhere & nearly
unheard of in jazz.
The boys bring an array of
guests aboard this time
starting with string bassist Gian Paulo
who gives an already thick trio sound
(thanks to Mike Karoub's cello)
even more punch.
lends his piano to a couple of tracks
too, along with trumpeter
Jon-Erik Kellso & others.
Duet singers Paul King & Melissa Brady
bring a cabaret feel to
East of the Sun '& 'Slow Boat to
Even more welcome is the talented
who lends a smoky, understated voice
to 'Undecided.' Davison's Tom Bogardus
(who wrote the album's two originals)
doubles on tenor guitar and clarinet,
with a hard-edged, straight-ahead
Sidney Bechet-like style.
Many have chops, but only the best
can really make the ballads sing
& Bogardus's lyrical soprano sax
on Duke Ellington's 'Come Sunday
is an album highlight.
Guitarist Brian Delaney admirably
distances himself from the
faster-and-louder
Django Reinhardt wannabes &
his Continental style & his breathing
well-constructed solos find that elegance
not to mention swing, that so many miss.
Mike Karoub's freewheeling cello playing
is such a knockout it's a wonder
there aren't more jazz cellists
maybe they're just afraid to sneak out
of the conservatory.
Listen to him tear it up on the full-band
'Viper's Dream' or the album-ending
Lang & Venuti vehicle 'Raggin' the Scale
As a bonbon for dessert, Delaney throws
in (as an unlisted 'hidden track')
a guitar solo: Eddie Lang's wistful parlor
piece
'April Kisses.' Bon appetit! Chris Rietz
works at Elderly Instruments in
His reviews appear every other week in
What's On. =================
The
is the latest offering from the
Detroit-based Traditional Jazz combo.
It picks up were the debut recording
left off--swinging thru 12 new tracks,
including 2 original compositions
by tenor guitarist & clarinetist Tom
Bogardus.
What separates this recording from
the first is the expansion of the groups
sound and concept. Before any
mic cable was plugged or chart inked
Mike, Tom & I thought about how to
approach the second recording.
said guitarist Brian Delaney recently
We all agreed that this time out we
would make use of collaboration as a
means to further hone and solidify
RGT's sound.
CD features special musical
guests Bess Bonnier,
a
on 'Jitterbug Waltz', with traditiona
jazz heavyweight James Dapogny
on piano and New York-based trumpeter
Jon-Erik Kellso on 'At The Jimmy's Bar'
& 'The Vipers Dream'. Featured vocalists
include Ms. Jo Serrapere on
Undecided' & Rhythm Society
Swing Orchestra's Paul King
with Melissa Brady dueting on
East Of The Sun' &
On A Slow Boat To
Stylistically, the record ranges from
the tightly arranged hard-swinging
RGT we know and love on 'Raggin'
he Scale' to the Manouche Party
approved 'Swing '02'.
Also included are two seldom covered
Django-era tracks & the beautiful
Ellington classic 'Come Sunday' featuring
Tom Bogardus on Soprano Saxophone.
They've truly covered the bases this
time out with something for everyone
from burners to ballads to crooners,
it's here. 'Rather than pushing themselves
to produce a second CD immediately
after the first, the trio has taken it's
time.
The result, self titled like the first,
was worth waiting for.'--Dave Riddle.
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