"Nobody in the history of jazz fiddle has ever played with the
technical assurance of O'Connor, and he has been a brilliant and
soulful improviser since he was a teenager ... Backed with driving
finesse by bassist Jon Burr and guitarist Frank Vignola, this live
set has a definite whiff of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France
about it, with O'Connor's fire and heart-on-the-sleeve emotional
involvement rendering this not only one of the finest discs of his
career, but one of the greatest jazz violin albums ever." --
Chicago Tribune "Acoustic, progressive Grappelli-style violin and
Django-style guitar jazz played by Mark O'Connor and his Hot Swing
Trio featuring Frank Vignola and Jon Burr. Reviving a once
overlooked style and demonstrating its undiminished vitality, Live
In New York documents this moment of arrival and departure:
recorded impeccably, executed flawlessly, it completes the trilogy
that had begun with Hot Swingand In Full Swing." -- Robert L.
Doerschuk, former editor of Musician magazine
* A jam session is at once a spontaneous musical conversation
and an art form. It strengthens both artistic and personal bonds
between players of a variety of musical styles around the world.
Once in a while, improvisational exchanges between musicians in a
jam escalate to a fever pitch: this recording, which captures nine
such instances, represents the contributions of six natural jammers
to the art of the jam. * Features some of the best recorded
improvised solos to date by O'Connor, Thile, Vignola, and
Sutton.
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1. Granny White Special
2. Gypsy Fantastic
3. Macedonia
4. Swingin' on the 'Ville
5. Soft Gyrations
6. Pickles on the Elbow
7. Don't Let the Deal Go Down
8. In the Cluster Blues
9. Minor Swing
