"That Old Black Magic" - Tiny Grimes Quintet
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/that-old-black-magic-remastered/824781926?i=824781934
Recorded in New York, December 30, 1947
I enjoy Tiny Grimes's "Midnight Special" and Joe Morris's "The Applejack" a lot, but if I had to pick one of Atlantic's early instrumentals, it would be this one. Grimes manages to extract some beautiful tones out of his guitar to provide a dream-like atmosphere along with some great horn-guitar dialog throughout the song. Yet, the best part is how it nicely balances that cool, soothing sound of the horns/guitar with the simple but tough hammering of the piano riff throughout the song, allowing it to have quite a kickass bottom to boot while making its general point. A very enjoyable instrumental as a whole: it may sound a bit dated, but there is at least some real magic to the elegant rhythmic simplicity of this song that I find very enduring.
Verdict: Decent
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