Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: The Gennett Suite review — pioneers made fresh
King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Jelly Roll Morton. At least four of these will be merely names to today’s music fans — historical figures rather than people one might want to listen to. The Gennett label recorded their early work a century ago on rudimentary equipment in a non-soundproofed studio stuck by an Indiana rail track. The results sound ancient to us. This album makes them modern again.