The current swing revival, a very healthy development that has given younger dancers an opportunity to jitterbug to four/four music has, ironically, resulted in quite a bit of erratic music. Some of the so-called swing bands are really just playing rockabilly, '50s pop, or mere imitations of Louis Prima and Cab Calloway mixed in with R&B from ...
If you like swinging big-band blues, this is a no-lose proposition. The eight-member backup outfit consists of jazz veterans who have played with giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton, and Duke Ellington; lead singer Smith, a kid by comparison, only sounds as if she lived through the big-band era. Half a dozen of the San Francisco group's ...
The legendary Chicago-based tune showcase and dinner club House of Blues has its own reputable record label, known to produce and distribute the likes of such disparate party pals as Jerry Garcia and James Belushi. This next wave to a departing decade is a compilation featuring hand-selected HOB crowd pleasers -- this time focusing on the ...
The mid- to late '90s saw the rise of a so-called "swing revival" that in many cases was closer to the jump blues and early R&B of Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner than the big band swing of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Jimmie Lunceford. For members of the World War II generation who were old enough to remember the '40s, it must have ...
The Real Deal: The Best of Today's Swing Music highlights the more reverent yet eclectic side of the retro-swing revival, demonstrating its incorporation of compatible styles like jump blues, rockabilly, and Western swing. Most of the performances are energetic and enthusiastic, and although most of these acts haven't gotten the popular exposure ...
The HiBall Lounge Sessions, Vol. 1 is actually not a bad retro-swing sampling, mostly (but not exclusively) featuring artists performing classic material with both respect and a lively sense of fun. Present are Lee Press-On and the Nails ("Sing Sing Sing" and "Jumpin' Jive), Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums ("Daddy-O" and "Jumptown"), Lavay Smith ...
New Swing Collection: Swing Swing Swing is true to its word, collecting tunes from some of the most prominent swing acts like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy ("Go Daddy-O"), the Big Six ("The West Coast Jive"), and Royal Crown Revue ("Singin' All Day"). Alien Fashion Show's "Detroit Rock City," Big Time Operator's "Sing, Sing, Sing," and "Jumping from 6 to 6 ...
Hip-O Records' Hipsters, Zoots & Wingtips 3 collects tracks from new swing bands like Indigo Swing, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Big Time Operator, the Johnny Nocturne Band and others. Two bonus tracks from veteran artists Louis Jordan ("Saturday Night Fish Fry") and Louis Prima ("Paper Doll") are also included, rounding out a ...
With her vintage dresses and unabashedly sexy posturing, Lavay Smith evokes a bygone era, one when jazz was for dancing rather than for sitting and listening to, and when jump blues hadn't yet been displaced by rock & roll. The other thing that is unabashed about Smith is her repertoire, which on her third album consists primarily of standards -- ...
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