Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell was, of course, a leading DJ of the period running and recording for the seminal New York house label Spiritual Life Music. Similarly Beady Belle was originally encouraged to record for Jazzland records by Wesseltoft and has gone on to make a number of great records including personal favourites Home from 2001 and its follow up CEWBEAGAPPIC. Truffaz and Wesseltoft go way back of coursethe Frenchman having guested on tour with New Conception of Jazz around the turn of the century. These are no ordinary friends who just happened to stop by, they are fine musicians in their own right who crucially have a pedigree in this genre of music that lifts this above the commonplace into being one of the albums of the summer., for example, has a distinguished discography that includes a well-regarded run of releases on Blue Note in the early part of the 21st Century such as the mighty Bending New Corners and The Walk of the Giant Turtle. While Wesseltoft does not need to prove his talent to anyone, the success of the project is in part due to the collaborators that he has assembled, originally for a 2011 gig at the Oslo Jazz Festival. Nonetheless, few would have predicted a return to jazz house and fewer still that it would be such a resounding success. In There or the stark deep mid-winter beauty of the solo piano record It's Snowing On My Piano.
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