The Russell Welch Hot Quartet – Mississippi Gipsy

$12.99

Out of stock

SKU: 88829519861 Categories: , Tag:

Description

Release Date – 2014

Label – Independent

Track List

  1. Explaining Places
  2. Mrs. Ladybug’s Dream
  3. Deed To The Bouncy House
  4. Shu Feedback
  5. The District Bounce
  6. Metaphysical Comedy
  7. Frendmen St. Pop Pop
  8. Aunt Tiki’s Strut
  9. Inspector Buttons Is Dead
  10. Hey Bedroom Fans
  11. Dj Ango
  12. Caturday
  13. In An Inch Of The Infinite

Personnel

  • Russell Welch – Guitars
  • Dr. Sick – Violin, Saw, Glockenspeil
  • Bruce Backman – Clarinet
  • Joshua Gouzy – Bass
  • Jason Jurak – Bass

Reviewed In OffBeat

Robert Fontenot (April 2015 Issue)

The New Vagabond movement of trad-jazz post-K transplants—and let’s keep using that term until OffBeat readers come up with a more fitting one—hasn’t produced many instrumental albums, odd for a genre that routinely rejects any style developed after Hiroshima.

However, Mississippi Gipsy goes a long way towards rectifying that omission, while adding a few new wrinkles Russell’s guitar brethren would be smart to pick up on (glockenspiel and a violin pretending to be a theremin, for a start).

Better still, the titles are damn descriptive all their own, and intriguingly accurate when announcing the mood—“Mrs. Ladybug’s Daydream” is ethereal in miniature, “Hey Bedroom Fans” is a languid afternoon romance, “Deed to the Bouncy House” moves with a jaunty innocence, and “Metaphysical Comedy” is the best kind of self-consciously overwrought farce.

The real coup, though, was the Jackson native’s decision to expand his sonic palette on what can be considered his second album: last year’s “Showarama Hot Trio” was a tour de force of all-acoustic gypsy jazz insanity, but adding violin, sax, and clarinet makes Welch’s impossible runs up and down the neck more, not less, potent, allowing him to go off in controlled bursts of Djangoesque power and doing more with slightly less.

What was an amazing exercise is now a study in feeling.

 

Additional information

Weight 5.0 oz
Dimensions 5.0 × 5.5 × 0.5 in

You may also like…