Paul Brody

I was first turned onto Mr Paul Brody in about 1996 when I heard his German Octet's version of Caravan on 95bFM's Sunday jazz show - it's a complete blast from the first trombone eruption through to the rollicking end with Van Halen guitar lead and a shitload of close horn harmonies. Several months later I accidentally fell across the album Turtle Paradise in a record shop in Auckland - my student income managed to stretch to the $40.00 required to purchase. And now as far as I can tell, this CD is really hard to find, even on the web.

Humour, great drumming from Bob Moses, overexposed baritone sax parts. It's a complete masterpiece.

This US- born trumpet player is based in Berlin and is very much doing his own thing, today exploring the outer reaches of jewish folk music and other exciting stuff that you probably can't do very easily in America. MP3 snippets of the lovely noise of his DetoNation Orchestra (from the album Animals and Cowboys) can be found on the web:

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