Paris Suite in Bloomington, MN

Veteran valve-trombonist/composer
Bob Brookmeyer
has not recorded many small group dates during the 1980s and '90s, making this Challenge CD with a young European rhythm section (pianist
Kris Goessens
, bassist
Riccardo Del Fra
and drummer
Dre Pallemaerts
) a bit special.
Brookmeyer
plays eight obscurities (four by him and three by his pianist) that are complex, harmonically advanced and yet still able to be swung. Well worth searching for. ~ Scott Yanow