CCD 11089 JW-Jones Blues Band - Kissing In 29 Days

JW-Jones Blues Band

Kissing In 29 Days

CD Digipac
CCD 11089
EAN 4014924110895
2006
61:27
  1. Kissing In 29 Days
  2. Hey Girl!
  3. All My Money
  4. I Don't Want To Hear
  5. Games
  6. Parasomnia**
  7. Fly To You
  8. Got Me Chasin'
  9. Way Too Late
  10. Hallelujah I Love Her So**
  11. Pretty Little Sweet Thing
  12. Standing In Line
  13. No Love
  14. Here She Comes**

  • featuring David 'Fathead' Newman

JW-JONES – guitar / vocals
GEOFF DAYE – piano / organ
NATHAN MORRIS – electric & upright bass
ARTIE MAKRIS – drums

The Wind-Chill Factor Horns:
BRIANJAMESASSELIN – tenor sax
FRANK SCANGA – baritone sax / harmonica
MICHAEL DALRYMPLE – baritone sax
BRADY LEAFLOOR – alto sax
PATRICK CAMIRÉ – lead trumpet
RICK RANGNO – second trumpet

Special guests:
MANNIE MAKRIS – acoustic guitar
DAVID 'FATHEAD' NEWMAN – tenor sax

“Kissing In 29 Ways” is JW-Jones' fourth album on CrossCut. It's a time travel back to the heydays of Kansas City swing, and Central Avenue blues and r&b in Los Angeles. JW is taking you back to those days where blues shouters were fronting mighty bands, and where the borders between jazz and blues became blurred. JW absorbed the music of the era to revitalize rhythm'n'blues.

The 25-year-old Canadian was a drummer until he attended a B.B. King concert in 1995. With this experience in mind, he started a crash course in blues guitar and began to learn playing the music of the masters. He studied the styles of the three Kings in blues (Albert, B.B. and Freddie) and learned from recordings by T-Bone Walker and Robert Jr. Lockwood. These days, JW continues to develop his personal sound, along with saxophone player James Asselin. Over the past three years, the two young Canadians have been working together. It is their common goal to recreate the atmosphere of long ago.

JW's recent artistic growth is also audible when listening to his singing. In the past two years JW has learned from the great blues vocalists of the 1940s, and '50s. The original phrasings of singers like Little Milton, Roy Brown or Wynonie Harris come to mind. And finally, the special guest on “Kissing in 29 Ways” deserves attention in particular. Tenor sax player David 'Fathead' Newman has co-written part of the history of African-American music himself. He was a long-time and very valuable member of the Ray Charles band.

Latest with “Kissing In 29 Ways”, with his mixture of tradition and modern spirits, JW-Jones has found his own personal expression in contemporary blues. The amalgamation of r&b and blues of the early days with today's sounds, the inclusion of 1960s style rock music and the attitude to life of his generation makes him one of the few outstanding blues musicians of his age group, in Canada. His music sounds original whereas many of his contemporaries sound like pale imitators.

Reviews CCD 11089

This collection is garnered from the timeless fifties; the ego struttin’n’strollin’ musical
melting pot that is; The Blues, R’n’B, Jump’n’Jive & Blues Shoutin’.
The tracks are played with gusto verve, vim and vigour! The professionalism on
display here is second to none; the bands infectious tunes and dexterously changing
styles is backed up with a relentlessly lifting, razor sharp horn section that has the
legendary tenor sax player David 'Fathead' Newman lending a helping hand.

bluesart.at
June 2006
Brian Harman

For this release he adopts the big band blues sound of the late forties though to the sixties, with vintage B.B. a very welcome and very strong influence. (…) JW's guitar skills have never been in doubt, but note that his vocals on this set are very accomplished too. In short, this CD is well worth investigating.

Blues In The South
August 2006
Norman Darwen

Auf seiner mittlerweile vierten CD zeigt der Mittzwanziger aus Ottawa ein derart sattes und reifes Können, dass man gleich mehrere Hüte ziehen möchte. (…) Mit Sicherheit eine der Scheiben, die man auch aus einer größeren Sammlung immer wieder mal heraus zieht, um sie stets aufs Neue zu genießen.

global-mojo.com
Summer 2006
Mojo Mendiola

Mit ungelacktem Schwung bringen JW-Jones und seine Kumpels judendlich-frischen Swing in das sonst meist von 'alten Männern' konservierte Genre des Big City Rhythm'n'Blues. @ – erfreuliche Delikatesse: Delight

Schallplattenmann.de
05-2006
Bernhard Sauer

Big band R&B sound with the crack Wind Chill Factor Horns adding that extra bit of class. (…) 'Kissing In 29 Days' has set the bar pretty high, and marks the JW-Jones band as a force to be reckoned with.
Rating 8

Blues In Britain
Spring 2006
Gordon Baxter

Im Titelstück donnert die geballte Kraft der R&B-Horns hinter einem perlenden Boogie-Piano her, in „Games” treiben sie eine funky Orgel vorwärts, „Parasomnia” erinnert an Johnny Otis und bei „Way Too Late” sieht man sich in eine schummrige Bar versetzt und beobachtet eng tanzende Paare in der Mode von damals. Damit das Album kein zweiter Aufguss einstmals hipper Musik wird, versucht Jones seine eigene Handschrift mit einzubringen. Einerseits geschieht das durch immerhin elf Eigenkompositionen – die drei Covers stammen von Ray Charles, Little Milton und Jimmy McCracklin – andererseits durch seine Art, die Gitarre zu spielen. Die Agressivität des Sixties-Rock taucht darin ebenso sporadisch auf wie modernere Bluesvarianten. Als Ergebnis entstand eine zeitgemäße Mischung aus dem Rhythm'n'Blues und Blues der frühen elektrischen Jahre mit den Sounds von heute, für Jones ganz persönlich aber auch eine Art Neuanfang.

Blues News
Juli-September 2006, #46
Karl Leitner

Die CD liefert echte Partymusik und eine starke Gitarre von JW-Jones. Bereits die erste Nummer, gleichzeitig der Titel der CD, „Kissing in 29 Days”, reißt von den Sitzen, und so geht es nahezu ununterbrochen weiter.
Concerto

August-September 2006
Franz Richter