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NEW CD! Attention collectors. Makes a great gift. Vic Dickenson and Jim Galloway LIVE in Toronto Perhaps it belongs on television’s Antiques Roadshow. It’s a valuable slice of Canadian jazz history – a treasure trove in fact. Thirty-seven years ago saxophonist Jim Galloway played with American trombonist Vic Dickenson at a long-gone Toronto venue, Daniels. The show was recorded by Hogtown’s voice of jazz Ted O’Reilly, who stored the tapes – and now they’ve been transcribed. The result is Vic Dickenson Jim Galloway - Live In Toronto (Castor Records 11 001 www.jimgalloway.ca), which is pure delight, Galloway on his straight soprano for once (and occasionally baritone sax) matching wits with the king of growls, smears and all-around soft-toned, fluent wit. Backed by warhorses Ron Sorley (piano), Danny Mastri (bass) and George Reed (drums), the session is relaxed, yet swinging, from the first notes of Sonny Boy to the last of Just You, Just Me. It’s fabulous mainstream jazz, with journalist-drummer Paul Rimstead in for three of the dozen tracks. Happily Galloway sounds today much like he did then but everyone who heard Dickenson live misses his earthy playing with its immediately recognizable sound. The leaders both understand the blue notes and tasteful lyricism, and each gets his own stylish feature, Dickenson singing with his horn on Manha de Carnaval and Zing went the Strings of my Heart and Galloway, wry and charming as ever on baritone with Solitude. This great record shows how the wisdom of age trumps the pretentious audacity of much jazz youth. Geoff Chapman, WholeNote Magazine, December 2010     BUY DIRECT FROM US Simply Go here to send money or buy with your Credit Card using Paypal     Use this email address > buymusic@jimgalloway.ca    Then send us your mailing address and we'll send you a CD.  Canada - $20 plus $3 shipping ($23 CAD). Europe/International - $5 shipping ($25 CAD) (approx 18 euros) To make other payment arrangements, send us an email > buymusic@jimgalloway.ca  Prices Canada $23.00 International $25.00   Track List 1. Sonny Boy (Brown/DeSylva/Henderson/Jolson) 2. Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams)  3. Zing, Went The Strings Of My Heart (J. F. Hanley) 4. Creole Love Call (Ellington/Miley/Jackson)      5. (Back Home Again In) Indiana (Hanley/Macdonald)     6.  Just A Closer Walk With Thee (Trad. Arr: Galloway) 7.  Manha De Carnaval (Bonfa/Jobim) 8.  Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Lil Hardin Armstrong) 9.  Solitude (DeLange/Mills/Ellington)                          10. My Gal Sal (Paul Dresser) 11. Tin Roof Blues (Mares/Pollack/Brunies/Mares/Melrose/Stitzel) 12. Just You, Just Me (Greer/Klages)  _________________________ ________ __ ___________ More details [Read Liner Notes] → BUY Raisin' the Roof - Warren Vache and Jim Galloway → LISTEN OR BUY Jim Galloway CDs at ARTIST direct       CD Information Artist : Jim Galloway CD Title : Echoes Of Swing Genre : Mainstream Jazz   Purchase this CD at www.jazzpromo.com     CD Information Artist : Jim Galloway CD Title : Music Is My Life Purchase Music Is My Life CD at CD Universe featuring: Jay McShann, Humphrey Lyttelton, Dick Wellstood Produced by John Norris (Reissue)       CD Information Artist : Jim Galloway CD Title : Kansas City Nights   Purchase Kansas City Nights at CD Universe This 12 track reissue of "Kansas City Nights" recorded in Tortonto in 1993 features Jay McShann, Fraser MacPherson and Jake Hanna. After more than a five year hiatus, it is great to have this music available again.     CD Information Artist : Jim Galloway and Jay McShann CD Title : Jim and Jay's Christmas   Purchase Jim and Jay's Christmas at answers.com Jim Galloway (on soprano, tenor and baritone), veteran pianist Jay McShann (who takes the vocal on "Hootie's Christmas Baby"), bassist Neil Swainson and drummer Archie Alleyne team up to play some spirited Christmas jazz on this CD. Some of the treatments are a bit surprising, including a very somber opening "Silent Night"; a few of the tunes are obscure, particularly "Christmas Night In Harlem" and "Christmas In New Orleans," and the band easily swings through such tunes as "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Silver Bells." A fine, swing-oriented mainstream set. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide.   You can also find Jim on other people's CDs here at MSN.com