Carl Fontana - The Great Fontana

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Free Music Review: The Great Fontana - WHAT A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT!!!
Hit: 5 Stars

This album flat out cooks, in the most gorgeous and elegant manner. Every cut is fantastic, from bop to ballads - they all swing to their core. My favorite is which ever one I am listening to at any given moment, but I think the most amazing is "It Might As Well Be Spring" - all Fontana for umpty-dozen choruses, each one hotter than the one before; he relinquishes the floor to the piano for a few choruses - probably to keep the trombone from melting down - then comes roaring back with an a cappella solo that curls my toes; the rhythm section rejoins him to take it out. A big surprise is the swinging rendition of "America the Beautiful" set to a Latin rhythm. That and several other cuts that did not appear on the original LP release, are incredible bonuses on this phenomenal album that ranks as one of my all-time favorites! FONTANA CAN PLAY THAT SACKBUT!!!

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