Album Review: Jazz En Stock from the Jazz Street Boyz
Album: Jazz En Stock Artist: The Jazz Street Boyz Label: JDC Musique Website: www.jazzstreetboyz.com Listen: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jazz-en-stock/1445207062?app=music&ls=1&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 A band of self-proclaimed buskers, Jazz Street Boyz revitalize the era of Tin Pan Alley collectives when groups of street performers gathered to pitch their homespun tunes to music publishers that occupied 28th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan back at the turn of the century. Homespun music is what the duo of vocalist/tenor guitarist/banjo player Dominic Desjardins and keyboardist/trumpet player Jérôme Dupuis-Cloutier create on their sophomore release Jazz En Stock from JDC Musique. Based in Montreal, the duo are joined by bassist Sylvain Délisle and drummer Jonathan Gagné. Collectively, the quartet demonstrate an open mind about making music, blending elements of Dizzyland jazz, blues, ragtime, folk, bluegrass...