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Hot Club of Detroit
# 1 Gypsy Jazz Group Celebrates Django
Rinehardt's 100th Birthday
Available for 2010/2011 Season
More than seven decades after the
innovations of the Quintette du Hot
Club de France, featuring guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, combos
called Hot Clubs carry on the gypsy jazz sound around the globe—in
Tokyo, San Francisco, Seattle, Sweden, Norway, Austria, and many other
locales. None, however, offers a fresher take on the tradition than
does the Hot Club of Detroit, led by fast-fingered Reinhardt disciple
Evan Perri.
Unlike the
instrumentation of original Paris-based quintet, comprising
Reinhardt, violinist Stephane Grappelli, two rhythm guitarists, and a
bassist, the current Hot Club of Detroit is made of guitarist Perri,
accordionist Julien Labro, soprano and tenor saxophonist Carl Cafagna,
rhythm guitarist Paul Brady and bassist Shannon Wade. The fibrous
accordion tones of Labro, a native of Marseilles, France, links the
Detroit quintet to the French musette style from which gypsy jazz
partially sprung, while Cafagna’s robust saxophone work introduces bop
and post-bop elements to gypsy jazz.
Special Guest
available
Connie Evingson
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Connie Evingson, a native of Minneapolis,
has appeared in
clubs and concert halls across the U.S., Europe and Japan, and has
been a guest soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Toronto
Symphony conducted by Doc Severinsen. She has performed across
the world in the Vocalessence Music Series
with Bobby McFerrin. She is the creator of the original stage
production, "Fever, A Tribute to Peggy Lee," which she has performed at
theatres across the country and New York's Town Hall. She
has been featured on the Smithsonian's "Jazz Singers" radio series,
appeared on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, and opened for
Harry Connick, Jr., Joe Williams, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Dizzy
Gillespie.
 Connie
Evingson
and
Hot Club's "Gypsy In My Soul"
Connie
Evingson
and
Hot Club's "Nature Boy"
> Connie Evingson Bio
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> Hot Club of
Detroit Biography 2008 (pdf)
>
Accordions
Worldwide
review (pdf)
>
Detroit
Free
Press Feature Article (pdf)
>
Downbeat Review 2007 (pdf_
>
Downbeat Review 2008 (pdf)
>
Jazz Improv Review (pdf)
> Jazziz
Review 2006 (pdf)
>
JazzTimes Review 2006 (pdf)
>
Virginian
Pilot
Review 2008 (pdf)
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Video
 vHot Club of Detroit
Promotional Video
Audio Samples
"Coquette"
from_Night_Town (mp3)
"Pour_Parler"_from_Night_Town
(mp3)
"Night_Town"_from_Night_Town
(mp3)
Artist
Website
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