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Anders Gaardmand / The Organizers: La Fontaine Live / The Organizers + 1
by C. Michael Bailey
Kjeld Lauritsen in common.
These two Scandinavian offerings could not be more different or enjoyable. Tenor Saxophonist Anders Gaardmand bar-walks his way through ten B-3-oozing standards in a manner bordering on sentimental schmaltz, but fortunately never quite getting there. La Fontaine Live is the documentation of a Chitlin' Circuit Danish Sinatra singing in front of the Texas Tenor cum Scandinavia of the Gaardmand—(Red) Holloway axis. Old war-horses like Misty" and Old Folks" are peppered with the more contemporary fare ...
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