
2005 I
was sitting so close I couldn't possibly get all seven (three
plus four)
horn players in one shot. And there is a wildly inventive
piano player back there with a bass player and drummer.
This show was thrilling. They played for an hour straight
running one piece into the other. They can sound like a
German oom pah band, Spanish bull fighting music, an old
world marching band or long hair music. Close your eyes
and you feel like you are in the middle of a cartoon. And
there is ample room for solos in these charts. And then
there is humor like when the horn players drained their
trumpets into their mute cups and doused the crowd. Tom
Kohn from the Bop Shop has brought this band to town
(from the Netherlands) ten times in the past so you may
get another chance to see them. Don't miss it. Sophisticated
and joyous, this band has it all and should be huge. What
is wrong with this world? Never mind.