Christmas At The Almanac Music Hall
Product Description Rousing retro-acoustic swing renditions of Christmas classics - as if you were at a Christmas party at a VFW Hall in the 30's or 40's. About the Artist Peter Ecklund - cornet > A frequent guest on Prairie Home Companion, Peter plays in a unique style that mixes swinging jazz of the 20's through the 40's with other traditional American music. He has appeared with Woody Allen's band at Michael's Pub in New York City. His cornet (and trumpet) can be heard in the films "King of the Gypsies", "Eight Men Out" and "Fried Green Tomatoes," as well as cornet soloist in the Ken Burns' Films, "The Civil War," "Baseball," and "The American West." Peter has recorded with artists David Bromberg, Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Gregg Allman, Leon Redbone, Loudon Wainwright and many others. Ecklund is the subject of a chapter in "Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz." by writer and jazz critic Chip Deffaa. He is the author of "Louis Armstrong: Great Trumpet Solos" for the publisher Charles Colin. Peter has just completed "Bix Beiderbecke: Great Cornet Solos" for the same publisher. The Howard Fishman Quartet are regular performers at the famed Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The New York Times writes of the Quartet that, "rather than studiously copying the sounds of the past, the group recombines familiar ingredients to create its own brand of classicism." Longtime Algonquinite, artist Al Hirschfeld raved of the Howard Fishman Quartet, "Wonderful...the best jazz I've heard since the '20s."
Quartet, the Howard Fishman  (Performer),     Ecklund, Peter  (Performer)    Format: Audio CD
{"Is Discontinued By Manufacturer": "No", "Package Dimensions": "5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches; 2.83 Ounces", "Original Release Date": "1999", "Date First Available": "January 19, 2007", "Number of discs": "1"}