Little Til & the Gangbusters
In a Peculiar Way
(Rocketman Records)
It was with sharp discernment that Italy's Attilio Malambri (nicknamed "Little Til") selected which standards to revisit. Featured songs are cream, and these reinterpretations crackle as if the material were newly minted. In ballads, Little Til's urbanity enjoys bolstering by grand harmonies. And when stormers roll out, he pounds the daylights out of ivories and exhorts insistently in a manner best characterized as fevered. At every turn, the formidable Gangbusters tear it up without looking back. Rocking is their business, as the Treniers once declared, and the band's virtues cannot be extolled too loudly.
Recommended: "Fools Fall In Love," "Money (That's What I Want)," "Lonely Weekends," "Lovin' Up a Storm," "Rockin' My Life Away"
Video: "Lonely Weekends"
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