Cow Bop
Too Hick For The Room
B4 Man Music
www.B4man-music.com
By George W. Harris

Yes, modern jazz is a wonderful thing, but as this disc points out, the
tradeoff for sophisticated solos and harmonies is that something was
also lost when music went beyond pop tunes and dance. Here, LA cats
Bruce Forman (who is a jazzer of the highest grade), Pinto Pammy/voc,
Phil Salazar/fiddle, Alex King/b and Jake Reed/dr get together for a
little Western Swing disc that mixes the “ah hah” joy of Bob Wills’
Texas Playboys with Tin Pan Alley and the local Moose Lodge. Pammy’s
voice is earthy and earnest, and she delivers it with sass and style on
the buoyant “San Antonio Rose” and “Anytime.” Forman himself lets out
some bona fide solos, as on “Sweet Temptation, and Roger Kellaway’s
piano add deliciously to “Besame Mucho” and “Alabamy Bound.” But, the
focus here is simply an homage to music that was meant to grab your
partner, order some more fries, and forget your troubles for the night.
At one time, everyone in attendance at a concert would know the words
to “Tennesse Waltz” or “Chinatown.” Can that be claimed by today’s
composers? He plays locally in LA, checkout his web site for gigs