November 16, 2006 - Review - Globe and Mail
The Little Big Band 3 Colin James
***1/2

This being Colin James's third Little Big Band record, you could consider it another fine volume in a series of jump blues and swing-brass R & B. Or you could see the material not as a sequel to his prior big-band albums, but as a prequel to the brash-and-flash guitar rock of the Regina singer-guitarist's youth. The styles of Roscoe Gordon, Little Willie John and T-Bone Walker informed James's precocious early work. Now, years down the path, when he sings about crying and dying on Doc Pomus's Lonely Avenue, James is more credible. As he is on the slow soul of Sam Cooke's That's Where It's At. That's where Colin James is at.
- Brad Wheeler