Jazz
Dr. Michael White (clarinet, wine bottle); Gregory Stafford (vocals, trumpet); Thais Clark (vocals); Detroit Brooks (guitar, banjo); Nicholas Payton, Mark Braud (trumpet); Lucien Barbarin (trombone); Kerry Lewis (tuba, bass instrument); Stephen Pistorius (piano); Mark Brooks (bass instrument); Herman Lebeaux (drums)
JazzTimes (p.95) - "DANCING IN THE SKY is about as close to old-time New Orleans jazz and its closely related forms as you can get these days....An especially pleasant surprise is the authenticity and skill with which the relatively youthful Payton deals with these historic idioms." Dirty Linen (p.51) - "[O]ne couldn't ask for better playing with the romping piano, chugging banjo, blasting trumpet lines, and, best of all, White's always-out-in-front wailing..." |