Artist: New Orleans Delight
Album: My Little Girl
Website: http://www.new-orleans-delight.dk/
Review by: Brian Harvey

New Orleans Delight are an unusual band in that they play a superbly authentic style of New Orleans jazz but are from Scandinavia! Just what chemistry they use to achieve this feat is a mystery - but there's no doubt that they have one of the most pleasingly authentic sounds around - a sound that would be just as at home in the French Quarter as it is in Copenhagen or Stockholm. Don't necessarily take my word for it??..that's what the highly respected critic and historian Marcel Joly said of them recently.

The band combines the heat and excitement of out-and-out Dixieland with the unique African and Spanish cross-rhythms and subtle changes of dynamics that make New Orleans jazz unique. In other words - within their idiom they're superb. On this CD from which we play the track Shake It & Break

It in our second "Trad" radio programme they're joined by the very fine trumpet of Norbert Susemihl and the excellent swinging vocals of the beautiful Kristin Lomholt. They turn what was already a band to sit up and take notice of into a classic one. It swings, it's exciting, it has wonderfully subtle dynamic and the choice of songs is superbly different. There are no hackneyed old jazz 'warhorses' here - just unusual songs like Moonlight And Roses, On Treasure Island and Will The Circle Be Unbroken which are refreshingly new to the jazz canon.

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