Pink Turtle

The seven guys in this swing-Blues/Jazz outfit from France certainly know their stuff. The opening « How Deep Is Your Love » begins with somefine boogie woogie piano passages, excellent jazz and latin rhythm, and a booting rhythm&blues tenor sax break – and it all works beautifully. Next, « Walk On The Wild Side » has the jive-y flavour of Fats Waller an ‘30s swing. Then it’s into « Smoke On The Water », with its strong Cab Calloway influence, its dirty sounding trumpet riffs and references to jump-Blues maestro Louis Prima… hang on, did he say « Smoke On The Water » ?! Yes that’s right ! – and how about The Bee Gees and Lou Reed for those preceding numbers, too ? There’s not a lot of humour about the Blues, but these guys certainly raise a smile with their inventive jump, jive and swing reworkings of rock classics. We also get Pink Floyd (« Money » and « Another Brick In The Wall »), The Eagles, Supertramp, Queen, The Police, AC/DC – a very Bluesy « Highway To Hell » - and others in the thirteen tracks ; even Norah Jones reinvented as Rosco Gordon. Next party you have, play this and get people talking – and dancing.