"I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS": KELLSO, ROBINSON, BARRETT, REITMEIER, SPORTIELLO, BURR, SIERS (2012)

I think of this as the Jazz at Chautauqua Thursday Night All-Star Jam Band, and after you hear and see them for nine minutes I predict you will understand why. Thursday nights -- before the jazz weekend began -- were loose swinging affairs in the Athenaeum Hotel parlor, where we sat at the same level as the musicians (rather than below them in a large ballroom) and all kinds of good things happened, as they did on September 20, 2012. Here are Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; Scott Robinson, cornet; Dan Barrett, trombone; Bob Reitmeier, clarinet; Alex Hoffman, tenor saxophone; Rossano Sportiello, piano; Jon Burr, string bass; Pete Siers, drums, romping on I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, which begins in the most sweetly exalted 1936 Teddy Wilson style. Imperishable. I can't watch it only once. Recorded and presented by Michael Steinman for JAZZ LIVES (http://www.jazzlives.wordpress.com). Thanks to the musicians and to the late Joe Boughton, the emperor of rare songs, swing, and good feeling.