Croydon Music & Arts
This one is paying homage to a few of the great “cool jazz” orchestras of the late Forties or ‘50s, echoes of Claude Thornhill or Sauter-Finegan imbuing its structure and outer garb; even the alto saxophone solo by Marc Phaneuf has echoes of Charlie Mariano or Sonny Stitt. In many ways, it is a real old-school big band ballad, and here Sanford appropriately retains his penchant for harmonic audacity beneath wraps. He does, nonetheless, suddenly let the trumpet part explode in a single passage earlier than bringing the amount again down. Of course, of the assorted influences in his music …