Soul Beat (Remastered) Charly Antolini

• 1St. James Blues04:24
• 2Locomotion03:23
• 3Wiener Blues03:14
• 4Things03:12
• 5La Belle05:29
• 6Dear Chaples04:40
• 7Woe's All over Me05:10
• 8Skin Burns03:32
• 9What Cha Gonna Do Without Me03:42
• Total Runtime36:46

Info for Soul Beat (Remastered)

Swiss drummer Charly Antolini is a super-technician often compared with Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson. His play is punctuated by its precision and explosive attack. Beginning his professional career playing in Paris with such New Orleans legends as Sidney Bechet and Albert Nicholas, he graduated to swing and bop. Soul Beat is something else altogether. Recorded in 1968, it grooves in the direction of “soul jazz”. Antolini has two Caribbean giants with him, saxophonist Wilton Gaynair and trumpeter Shake Keane. Third horn is the world-renowned American trombonist Jiggs Whigham. The album struts out with St. James Blues, a jazz march in which New Orleans meets Killer Joe. Wiener Blues is a 6/8 swing – you can waltz to if you want. La Belle is a beauty with a bossa feel, and Dear Chaples transports you right to Rio and carnival. The other pieces are pure funk. Tight, well-worked-out arrangements, commanding solos, and Charly Antolini at his crisp virtuoso best. A collector’s item for Antolini fans. For everyone else, a funky ride on the soul side.

Karlheinz Kästel, guitar
Francis Coppieters, piano
Wilton Gaynair, tenor saxophone, flute
Jiggs Whigham, trombone
Shake Keane, trumpet, flugelhorn
Jean Warland, double bass
Werner Dies, e-bass
Charly Antolini, drums

Digitally remastered

Charly Antolini
Swiss drummer Charly Antolini has been a force in European mainstream jazz for over half a century, a super-technician often compared with Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson. Beginning his professional career playing in Paris with such New Orleans legends as Sidney Bechet and Albert Nicholas, he graduated to swing and bop, working with Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, Jimmy Guiffre, and Art Farmer, among others. Antolini is best known for his own all-star ensembles

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