Brian Carrick's Algiers Stompers - "True (I'm Just Crazy Over You)"
Catalogue Note:
This new CD by The Algiers Stompers was recorded at the 2004 Bude Jazz Festival, with the band on great form playing to a large and appreciative audience. Since their last recording (PKCD-219, March 2003) there have been some personnel changes and the line-up is Peter Wright cornet, Brian Carrick clarinet and tenor sax, Chas Hudson trombone, Gabriele Gad piano, Malcolm Hurrell banjo, Bill Cole double bass, Guy Fenton drums.
The band has a great talent for unearthing long lost tunes which are well suited to a New Orleans-style treatment. On this CD the tunes are:- You’re Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine, St Louis Blues, Have You Ever Been Lonely, Eh La Bas, True, Just A Girl That Men Forget, Tap Room Special, Sweet Emma Barrett, Magic Isle, River Of The Roses, Bluer Than Blue, Are You Ready. The playing time is just under 70 minutes.
