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In any successful partnership, both parties must be self-assured, while enabling the best of each other. And they should surround themselves with people who will support, encourage and inspire. Such it is, with Mike Melito and Dino Losito. Friends and colleagues of long-standing, they're veterans of the legendary "thruway of funk" that spans Upstate New York, from Niagara Falls and Buffalo, to Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, and every place in-between. For generations, some of the swingingest musicians in Jazz have come from that hotbed, from Stanley Turrentine and J.R. Monterose to Mel Lewis and Frankie Dunlop. The Jazz Upstate has always been characterized by a take-no-prisoners, honest-to-goodness respect for soulful expression. Joined here by tenor saxophonist Larry McKenna, whose contributions to the Jazz Scene in Philadelphia (another Jazz crucible) are well-known, and first-call New York bassist, Neal Miner, Melito and Losito have turned in a date that is at once creative but relentlessly swinging, original but steeped in tradition, elegant but funky as all get-out. Sit back, spin the record, and enjoy.

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• recorded at Trading 8's in New Jersey
• creative but relentlessly swinging, original but steeped in tradition, elegant but funky as all get-out.
• features Philly tenor legend Larry McKenna and first call NY bassist Neal Miner

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If what you're looking for is a session where swing is the thing and the swing doesn't stop, this crew has your number. Mixing it up on covers they add their special sauce to and originals that are solid right out of the gate, this is a smoking straight up date for people that just want to sink back into some killer playing of fine jazz done right. Need anything else?

     —Chris Spector, Midwest Record review 9/18/2020