A dark room, candles on tables, a relaxed atmosphere with a cocktail on your hands, cigarette smoke and a sax player on stage The music included in Sam Burckhardt’s last album drives us to those last century fifties jazz clubs, but performed with contemporary arrangements to satisfy listeners of the new twenty-first century Sam has left out for a while the most classic Chicago blues to fully concentrate on his passion for the jazz that was performed by those great masters who left his print on him, as Illinois Jacquet or Jimmy Hamilton, Sam discovered when he was a teenager thanks to his teacher Chester Gill Although Sam is an expert and bright blues sax player who has recorded with the late Sunnyland Slim backing him several times, besides being member of bands like The Mighty Blue Kings or The Big Swing, it was not until 1999 he decided to create this combo to give a much more jazzy style to his performing Songs coming from Tiny Grimes, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Bill Dogget, but also by Leroy Carr together with three own compositions he has written in collaboration with his guitar player, come along this interesting album Besides Sam on tenor sax and vocals, the combo also includes Joel Patterson on guitar, Pete Benson on piano and organ, Beau Sample on bass and Alex Hall on drums Sam always says he plays what he likes and he does not care about market or commercial trends So let’s welcome this great album I will musically describe as soft and mellow