Herald Rating: * * *
(Martian)
Review: Graham Reid
The full title of this easy listening jazzy album is a mouthful: Around the World of Music Live at the Loaded Hog.
But that's what it is as singer/trumpeter Roy and his group, which includes Dave Lines on keyboards, take a journey from archetypal New York music (Lady is a Tramp, New York New York), through windy city tunes (Goin' to Chicago, Sweet Home Chicago) down to New Orleans. Then they go Cuban and troppo, jump with Symphony Sid and close with Jimmy Reed's You Don't Have to Go.
It's a nice enough journey with Roy improvising lyrics and asides before a live audience, and Lines is in especially fine form.
Roy's originals — the finger poppin' Life, Goin' Troppo and Forever is Now — fit in seamlessly and the whole thing is an undemanding, pleasant album best enjoyed on a summer after-noon.
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