During my time in Switzerland some years back, while staying by Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstaettersee), I had the privilege to play with a band called the Blue Flagships led by sax player, Duke Seidmann, who played horn-driven jump/swing music from the late nineteen forties.  They were dedicated! The drummer, Peter Mueller was a 30 odd year-old disciple of 50’s Chicago blues drummer, S. P. Leary, and the bass player, Daniel Gugolz (around the same age as Peter), was a Willie Dixon adherent. I felt as though I had walked into a Chicago blues session with those old Chicago musicians who had cut their teeth on the very jump/swing music that the Blue Flagships were playing! I wish I could post an mp3 of our time together, but instead I will post an authentic sounding cut they did with guitarist Rusty Zinn called ‘East Bay Stroll’.