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its predictable way down the drain, Georgie Fame was releasing his masterpiece "Cool Cat Blues," which devastatingly combined the best of jazz, progressive rock and R&B, all of which Reynolds decries as missing from British music of the period. Outswinging Brian Setzer, it restarted his career, leading to a long string of live and studio albums featuring guests like Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves and Alan Skidmore (of the wrenching sax solo on Clapton and Mayall's "Have You Heard," back thirty years later and that much better) and tribute albums and cuts to Mose Allison, Hoagy Carmichael and Eddie Jefferson.
If the indie press reviewed it at all, it was to dismiss it as Dadpop from someone of dad's generation.
