THE DAWN GIBLIN TRIO

 

Detroiter Dawn Gilbin leads a trio

 like no other. A trained singer with

 wide experience, Dawn

concentrates here on her reallove,

 the 1920s – 1940s jazz and popular

 music that gave the whole world a

huge fantastic repertoire through

the singing of Connee Boswell, Billie

 Holiday, Mildred Bailey and Ella

 Fitzgerald. Cellist Mike Karoub,

another Detroiter, is not only the

 greatest exponent of jazz cello, but

 its inventor as well. His immersion

in the music of this era’s great horn

 players–Louis Armstrong, Jack

 Teagarden, Lester Young, Bunny

 Berigan–and his formidable

 technique give his idiomatic

cello-playing the same freedom

and power his heroes had.

And with expertise in jazz piano from

 its beginnings through swing,

veteran James Dapogny–a

Chicagoan transplanted to Ann

Arbor–provides the rest of the

fireworks, soloing and

accompanying, by turns, with the

 full-throated roar of Jelly Roll

Morton, the romping stride of Fats

 Waller or the sophisticated swing

 of Teddy Wilson. Convincing jazz

artist by themselves, they make up a unique and powerful trio: you’ll

be amazed at how much music

comes out of these three.