Jazz
Turtle Bay Records · 6 November 2026
“Down in Honky Tonk Town”, Burgamy-Hancock New Originators’ first album for Turtle Bay Records, came out on 6 November digitally, on CD and on LP: nine musicians and eleven early-jazz tunes, played as collective improvisation. The band is led by cornetist and multi-instrumentalist Colin Hancock and New Orleans banjo player and singer Hunter Burgamy. The label talks of rhythm, humour and shared celebration.
Alongside Hancock on cornet and Burgamy on banjo and vocals are Robin Rapuzzi on drums, Tom Saunders on tuba, Kris Tokarski on piano, trombonists Charlie Halloran and Jens Lindgren, plus two clarinettists who double on tenor and C-melody sax. The album was recorded in New Orleans with Bigtone Recording Studio’s mobile unit; the arrangements are by Hancock, Burgamy, Saunders and John Gill, and the two leaders produced it, with Scott Asen as executive producer. Michael Perez-Cisneros mixed and mastered it.
At around thirty-eight minutes, with no track reaching five, the repertoire ranges from “Sensation Rag” to “Squeeze Me”, “Working Man Blues” and the title track. “Cryin’ for the Carolines” and “Baby Brown” had already hit streaming services on 2 and 16 October. Hancock also leads The Joymakers, an Austin band whose “A Texas-Sized Band” the same label released in April.
Text by Aina Torrents