Band That Swings

Band That Swings

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In popular-music history, Cleveland, Ohio, will go down as the birthplace of a particularly freaky strain in the punk rock quilt, evinced best by Pere Ubu. Cleveland should, however, also be hailed as the homeland for tenor saxophone virtuoso Ernie Krivda. His leadership of the Fat Tuesday Big Band is extraordinary, steering the assembly of local players along through standards that get added luster from both the band's charged power and Krivda's inventive take on his horn. He skis over the bumps and rough edges of virtuosity, finding shapely ways of conjuring phrases that others sound mechanical attempting. The band is energized with Count Basie's Kansas City-borne swing and infused with enough richness in orchestral construction to be simultaneously Ellingtonian. Krivda brought the Fat Tuesday crew with him on 1998's Perdido, and here he betters the earlier document by merely staying the colorful course. --Andrew Bartlett

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