Ruffins, Kermit / Happy Talk
| Album: | Happy Talk | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Ruffins, Kermit | Added: | Nov 2010 | |
| Label: | Basin Street | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2010-11-14 | Pull Date: | 2011-01-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Jan 16 | Jan 9 | Jan 2 | Dec 19 | Dec 12 | Dec 5 | Nov 28 | Nov 21 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 08, 2016: | Melange
La Vie En Rose |
4. | Jan 07, 2011: | The Jazz Hour - The Final Hour
Hey Look Me Over |
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| 2. | Mar 18, 2015: | 3-18-2015
Ain't That Good News, Hey Look Me Over |
5. | Jan 05, 2011: | Getting Over . . . the Hump (First of the New Year!)
If I Only Had A Brain |
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| 3. | Jan 11, 2011: | Rebop
Ain't That Good News |
6. | Jan 01, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum
Sugar |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2010-11-13
Reviewed 2010-11-13
KERMIT RUFFINS: Happy Talk
Basin Street, 2010
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ – Gotta love Kermit Ruffins. You always know what you’re gonna get with him: a good-time atmosphere, some peppy trumpet work and a lot of very silly vocals. This disc veers from excellent to awful, with a typically quirky selection of music including some real gems and two of the most annoying show tunes ever written.
Fo’s Picks: 3, 10, 12… maybe 2, 8, 9
1. 5:18 – happy New Orleans strut: some great clarinet, short solos all around
2. 3:41 – big band swings ‘n’ glides, nice little vocal & trumpet solo
3. 3:34 – perky, bluesy Sam Cooke big-band shuffle/stomp
4. 3:53 – Parisian romance, done Louis Armstrong style… slow, kinda campy
5. 5:20 – “South Pacific” tune as second line march… goofy voc but nice solos
6. 9:11 – Latin-jazz flavor for “Wizard of Oz” classic: kind of weird, but it works
7. 4:27 – argh… kids!!! And nobody but Sinatra has ever made this song work
8. 5:43 – fun bounce: an entertaining bit of Tremé fluff with joyous solos
9. 2:58 – speedy big band: rushed vocal and some quick-hit solos
10. 7:47 – really nice stroll through a 1920s standard; warm and just perfect
11. 3:57 – 1960s pop hit with big band… breezy music, really strained vocals
12. 6:38 – bluesy drag, an ode to New Orleans: nice guitar & trumpet solos
[ Fo ] 11/13/10
Basin Street, 2010
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ – Gotta love Kermit Ruffins. You always know what you’re gonna get with him: a good-time atmosphere, some peppy trumpet work and a lot of very silly vocals. This disc veers from excellent to awful, with a typically quirky selection of music including some real gems and two of the most annoying show tunes ever written.
Fo’s Picks: 3, 10, 12… maybe 2, 8, 9
1. 5:18 – happy New Orleans strut: some great clarinet, short solos all around
2. 3:41 – big band swings ‘n’ glides, nice little vocal & trumpet solo
3. 3:34 – perky, bluesy Sam Cooke big-band shuffle/stomp
4. 3:53 – Parisian romance, done Louis Armstrong style… slow, kinda campy
5. 5:20 – “South Pacific” tune as second line march… goofy voc but nice solos
6. 9:11 – Latin-jazz flavor for “Wizard of Oz” classic: kind of weird, but it works
7. 4:27 – argh… kids!!! And nobody but Sinatra has ever made this song work
8. 5:43 – fun bounce: an entertaining bit of Tremé fluff with joyous solos
9. 2:58 – speedy big band: rushed vocal and some quick-hit solos
10. 7:47 – really nice stroll through a 1920s standard; warm and just perfect
11. 3:57 – 1960s pop hit with big band… breezy music, really strained vocals
12. 6:38 – bluesy drag, an ode to New Orleans: nice guitar & trumpet solos
[ Fo ] 11/13/10
Track Listing
| 1. | Panama | 7. | High Hopes | |||
| 2. | Hey Look Me Over | 8. | I Got A Treme Woman | |||
| 3. | Ain't That Good News | 9. | Shine | |||
| 4. | La Vie En Rose | 10. | Sugar | |||
| 5. | Happy Talk | 11. | More Today Than Yesterday | |||
| 6. | If I Only Had A Brain | 12. | New Orleans (My Home Town) |