Slow Driving-Mutt Carey’s New Yorkers

Here’s another old track I have just found in my archives; (probably taped in the 1960’s from the BBC “Jazz Record Requests“ radio programme). Originally recorded just after WWII, it is a good, early, example of the kind of jazz that the American musicologists were anxious to get into their museum archives -before it was too late!! However, when it was heard by some of MY generation (brought up on the ’ballroom’ dance music, romantic ’torch’ songs etc. of our parent’s generation) it really hit the s