"In Full Swing" -- Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio

Technique will express its real value when it comes along
with joyfulness or beauty. You'll find this album to be one
of those that have such kinds of values, if only you try the
track 3 "Tiger Rag".

Though "Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio" -- Mark O'Connor
(violin), Frank Vignola (acoustic guitar), Jon Burr
(acoustic bass) -- has traditional style and repertoire of
1930 - 40's French jazz, so-called 'Gypsy Jazz', the two
'special guests' Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) and Mane Monheit
(vocal) give this album musical extensiveness and familiarity.

With the above "Tiger Rag", you can enjoy enough Marsalis'
virtuosity by that he manipulate his instrument with
classical articulation and jazz idiom. If you are a trumpet
player, you'll be irresistibly moved by his technique when
he goes on blowing his horn with amazing speed of tonguing
and when he finishes it with accurate Hi-F hit! You'll be
interested in Vignora's performances on the track 9
"Limehouse Blues" and the track 10 "On Beautiful Evening",
if you are a guitar player. And, I'll recommend all the
tunes of this album -- if you are a violin player who love
the jazz violin giant Stephane Grappelly but don't try to
compare others with him.