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Working with young New York cats Marty Isenberg (bass) and Michael Shapira (drums), Tarmu keeps the energy burning and improvisational excitement flying high throughout, focusing mostly on Silver gems from the early 50s to 1960, finding a unique center on three tracks from 1960’s Horace-Scope, including the peppy, rumbling “Horacescope” (on which he craftily subs his vibes for the original two horn arrangement), a cool, shuffling strut through the infectiously enchanting “Strollin’” and the speedy, hypnotic closing jam “Yeah,” which sends the album off with the same kind of nervous energy and literal boom and bang of the opening romp “The St. Vitus Dance.”
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