Pete York and Young Friends: Basiecally Speaking

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Andi Kissenbeck (org)
Gabor Bolla (ts)
Wolfgang Schmid (b)
Pete York (d, v)
Torsten Goods (g, voc)

Label:

ACT

Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Catalogue Number:

9101-2

RecordDate:

9-12 September 2012

Here's a dose of goodtime Friday night music that should have you dancing in the aisles. Producer Siggi Loch's relationship with York goes back five decades to when Loch was a producer to the Spencer Davis Group, and the whole shebang smacks of one big party for old pals. Loch has teamed veteran York with a gaggle of stellar youth. Goods for example is Freddie Green one moment, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson the next, while Kissenbeck's Hammond crunches on a splendid ‘Splanky’. But it's Bolla's smeary, blues-rich tenor that stands out, sparking up ‘Broadway’, or balladic on ‘Shiney Stockings’. York, though, won't be outdone by the tyros and has a bonkers break on ‘Lester Leaps In’. It's the upbeat jump stuff that the band warm to most, like ‘Woodside’. You may wish to draw a veil over the vocals (it's York's party and he'll sing if he wants to) but if you're looking for the good times to roll, why not start here?

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