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City Rhythm Orchestra

The City Rhythm Orchestra has been knocking out audiences for many years at nightclubs, jazz festivals, concert venues and dance events with their high energy music. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls them "Philly's premier swing outfit" and anyone familiar with this group would certainly agree. Their 1,000- tune play list is filled with swingin' jazz arrangements, vintage big band charts, rockin' blues and pop tunes, unique original material, and more. A music critic once wrote that hearing a set by City Rhythm was "great music and great fun". That just about sums up the results that saxophonists Pete Spina and Nick Vallerio had in mind when they formed the band, and they have consistently cooked up exciting music with their key ingredients of hot horn players, a smokin' rhythm section, and innovative arrangements

Big Band Concert at the Colonial Theatre

March 17, 2009

The City Rhythm Big Band concert series continues at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville on Sunday, March 29th at 7:00 PM with “Music to Spy By", an evening of fabulous songs from classic spy movies and television shows. This will be one of the most exciting shows yet as the band takes you through the scores ...

The City Rhythm Orchestra: Vibrant Tones

by Jack Bowers
April 24, 2005

With this new CD and companion DVD, you can not only hear Philadelphia's exciting City Rhythm Orchestra with guest artist and homeboy Joey DeFrancesco burning at the Hammond B-3, you can also see them ramp up the voltage in a crowd-pleasing dockside concert from July '03 at Wiggins Park in Camden, NJ. Musically, the CD and ...

Vibrant Tones

By City Rhythm Orchestra

Label: Limehouse Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Senor Blues; Time After Time; The Cat; Billie's Bounce; Walk On the Wide Side; Blues in Hoss' Flat; It Could Happen to You; One Mint Julep; It Ain't Necessarily So; Whirly Bird; The Midnight Sun Will Never Set; Turn Me Loose.

Swingin' Blue

By City Rhythm Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 1999
Track listing: Thing's Ain't What They Used to Be; Moanin'; Apple Honey; The Shadow of Your Smile; Splanky; Walk On the Wild Side; Big Swing Face; Whirly Bird; Night in Tunisia; Caravan; The Heat's On.

City Rhythm Strikes Again

By City Rhythm Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 1999

Goin' to Town

By City Rhythm Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 1994