COMFORT FOOD…Tony Monaco: Four Brothers

There is nothing that is as filling and satisfying as a classic B3 trio with tenor sax, and Hammondmeister Tony Monaco makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich of a band with Willie Barthel III/dr, Edwin Bayrd/ts-ss and Kevin Turner/g. Barthell III is as crisp as Japanese snow peas as he digs into the military march shuffle of the snappy title tune, giving a perfect surface of Bayard’s sole soprano solo on the energetic “Brothers-4”. Monaco is full fisted as he warms the room like a Franklin Stove for Bayard’s bel canto tenor on a gorgeous “Lush Life” and boogaloos on the kinetic shuffle of “Four Brothers Too!”. Turner rides the whip as he gallops like a stallion on “My Shining Hour” and is as bold as a primary color as he sears through the humming Hammond on “Jan Jan”. Rib sticking musical delights.

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