Artist: Slim & Slam
Album: The Groove Juice Special
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing
Label: Columbia/Legacy
Released: 1996
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- The Flat Foot Floogie (2:31)
- Chinatown, My Chinatown (2:38)
- Oh, Lady Be Good (2:36)
- Ti-Pi-Tin (2:33)
- Vol Vistu Gaily Star (2:44)
- Dopey Joe (2:29)
- Sweet Safronia (2:12)
- Chicken Rhythm (2:52)
- Matzoh Balls (2:34)
- Chittlin' Switch Blues (2:50)
- Swingin' in the Key of C (2:45)
- Boot-Ta-La-Za (2:46)
- Bongo (2:57)
- Lookin' for a Place to Park (3:04)
- A Tip on the Numbers (2:54)
- B.19 (3:06)
- African Jive (2:49)
- Palm Springs Jump (2:40)
- Ra-Da-Da-Da (2:44)
- Groove Juice Special (2:41)
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Singer/guitarist Slim Gaillard and bassist Slam Stewart made for a frequently hilarious and outrageous team. Gaillard's jive talk and the basic but memorable originals (best-known of which is "The Flat Foot Floogie") made Slim & Slam a popular group in the late '30s. All of their joint recordings were reissued in a perfectly done box set for Affinity a few years ago, so this single disc pales in comparison. and since eight of the 20 numbers that are included here are alternate takes (including "Floogie"), this is not quite a definitive introductory or greatest-hits set either, although beginners should be delighted by the music. The performances (which sometimes includes such guests as trumpeter Al Killian, clarinetist Garvin Bushell, drummers Kenny Clarke and Chico Hamilton and tenor great Ben Webster) are quite fun, but a bit more planning should have gone into the programming.
Review by Scott Yanow