by - Steve "Big Daddy BluzHarp" Harvell

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Flattop TOM & His Jump Cats

"Swing Dance Party"
Palamar Records

This group is simply awesome, for those of you that like big band, swing, boggie-woogie, blues and feel good harp playing, then you will get off on this CD big time.  This is the second one that I have gotten from Flattop TOM.  You get seventeen tunes that range from boogie-woogie dance to blues.  Flattop can play harp styles ranging from Rod Piazza to James Harman and he does it his way as Elvis used to say. Flattop became friends with William Clarke and began to learn about his influences, George "Harmonica" Smith, Walter Horton, and Sonny Boy Williamson.  This eight-piece combo has the feel of Roomful of Blues but they are no copy-cats.  The name Jump Cats fit to a tee, this is rockabily, dance jive, West Coast swing, blues, jump, all combined in one with a touch of ever so kool jazz.

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