Artist: Tom Bacon
Album: The Flipside: Jazz Horn Solos
Genre: Swing
Label: Summit Records
Released: 1989
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Concerto for Tom (Gottschalk)
- Tomfoolery - 4:41
- Hornful of Blues - 4:55
- Cooking with Bacon - 3:16
- Grand Ur (Avinger) - 5:42
Etudes (Bacon) - Listen Up - 2:35
- Lorna Doin' - 3:55
- Tom's Mix (Burt) - 7:02
- Wild Indigo (Burt) - 4:01
- Sync of Swim (Burt) - 3:39
- La Jardiniere (Milburn) - 4:48
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Tom Bacon is a very fine French horn player, and it is not everyday that someone blows jazz solos on the horn. Nevertheless, this short (45'35") album rarely rises much above the level of a novelty, perhaps due to the somewhat uninspiring material. If not for the horn, there is not much to distinguish this one from the pack. That being said, for those with a special interest in the French horn, this album should prove more than satisfactory. Bacon has a clean, crisp tone, and a fluid technique. His overdubbing on three tracks is gimmicky, but it still delights. Bacon is backed by various conglomerations, from the Rice University Jazz Band to a few different rhythm sections. The three arrangements by Art Gottschalk for the big band seem to work best, in part because they reflect a lighthearted approach.
Review by Steve Loewy