Alberta Hunter's second recording since launching her remarkable comeback (she was 83 when this album was cut) finds the veteran blues singer (a survivor of the 1920s) still in surprisingly strong form and full of spirit. Such songs as "Darktown Strutters' Ball," "My Handy Man," "Old Fashioned Love" and "I've Got a Mind to Ramble" are given fine treatment by
Hunter, who is joined by the Gerald Cook quartet, trombonist
Vic Dickenson, trumpeter
Doc Cheatham and tenorman
Frank Wess on various tracks. ~ Scott Yanow