All Alone with the Rhythm Jacques Gauthe

JCCD-3067 (Jazz Crusade)

Personnel: Jacques Gauthe [cl / ssx], Reide Kaiser [pn]. Emil Mark [bn], Colin Bray [sbs], Taff Lloyd [dm]

Songs: I’ve Got Rhythm, South, Love Nest, Sweet Lorraine, Oh! Lady Be Good, S’il Vous Plait, Old Fashion Love, Rosetta, I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say, Girl of My Dreams, Wolverine Blues, Smiles, China Boy, My Blue Heaven, All Alone with the Rhythm

All Alone with the Rhythm - Jacques Gauthe (Jazz Crusade JCCD-3067). This is a classic classic jazz album. Eschewing the hokey gimmicks that too often characterize the portrayal of New Orleans jazz (regrettably dubbed "Dixieland"), Gauthe and his rhythm section give a moving performance of this music which started it all. Staying pretty much in the middle register of the clarinet, Gauthe follows the path carved out by Sidney Bechet and other pupils of Lorenzo Tio with his woody sounding stick. One especially nice feature is that the program is not limited to songs generally associated with New Orleans. It has other popular tunes, played New Orleans style