Freddy Cole: This And That

Freddy Cole

"If you ever wonder what jazz will sound like after all the modernist and post-modernist agendas fall out of fashion then you need look no further than the recordings of Freddy Cole. When Freddy sings, we are left with the music itself, stripped of ideologies, left with songs true to their own emotional prerogatives. Such is the case with This and That, Cole's latest HighNote Recording featuring a dozen songs that run the gamut from the intensely personal innigkeit of ""What Color is Love"" to the extroverted buoyancy of ""Bang Bang Boogie."" Here, as in all his work, Freddy's supreme relaxation of delivery makes him the master of understatement. He is impressive because he never tries to impress, even in up-tempo numbers. With his usual rhythm section and guest artists Bootsie Barnes on tenor and Josh Brown on trombone, Cole gets back to basics and lets the music speak for itself."

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