Bopera House Next Day Delivery

John Marshall (trumpet), Tardo Hammer (piano), Ralph Lalama (tenor sax), John Webber (bass), Tom Melito (drums). Recorded June 10, 1988, at Rudy Van Gelder Studios. Tracks are: “Kiss & Tell”, “Samba Claudine”, “Gone Job”, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, “Wailing Wall”, “Is That So”, “Just One of Those Things”, “Sippin’ at Bells”, “So Young”, “Beans & the Boys”, “11th & First”. Trumpeter John Marshall and pianist Tardo Hammer formed this group when the Metropolitan Bopera House broke up. Like Danny D’Imperio (former leader of the Metropolitan Bopera House), the Marshall-Hammer Bopera House is dedicated to the revitalization of bebop and hard bop.