Not the normal SpaceRockMountain fare, but quality music
that needs a larger audience. Gregory Page is a staple of the San Diego music
scene and has been churning out what would have been standard pop music 60
years ago, but now sits in a small stable of acts that produce records from the
Big Band days of Jazz.
Gregory’s newest full length is titled Shine, Shine, Shine and finds him comfortably crooning over a hefty
band capable of transporting your ears to a time when folks received food
rations, married at 19, and owned transistor radios that hummed every summer
evening. As I finish up work on my solo Elvis Dracula record, Gregory’s records
have been played in concurrence with Chet Baker and Billie Holiday in recording
sessions intended to situate myself in the musical world necessary to craft
tunes from this era.
Try and listen to the title track from Shine, Shine, Shine and not smile. Romanticism of the past is a
fools errand, but there is nothing to Gregory’s music that is deserving of
derision or scorn.
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