Not really a trio album featuring George Wettling
William C. Barrett | Sun City, AZ USA | 03/29/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is a four star album only because Ralph Sutton deserves no less. If you buy it to hear George Wettling, as I did, forget it. Sutton plays his usual great two-hand stride piano which leaves little room for bass and drums. All you can hear of Wettling is straight four-four brushes--no solos--on about half of the numbers. This was recorded in two sessions in 1950 and 1951. Wettling appears only on the first session and Buzzy Drootin on the second. Jack Lesberg (bass) is on the first session and Bob Casey on the second. Drootin doesn't get to play any more than Wettling and Casey only gets a couple of two bar breaks toward the end of the album."