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Chaise Lounge: Gin Fizz Fandango
by Mark Sullivan
Washington DC's Chaise Lounge know how to show the listener a good time. On their seventh album they take the “cocktail jazz" description literally, offering a recipe for the title cocktail in the CD liner notes, compliments of the band's resident mixologist, bassist Pete Ostle. Not only that: there's even a “Play along with Chaise Lounge" option: a link to lead sheets online for all of the original songs. As the title fandango implies, the program has a ...
Continue ReadingChaise Lounge: A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas
by Mark Sullivan
Sparkling holiday music from the Washington, DC area group Chaise Lounge. Calling what they do “martini-jazz" gives them license to toss just about anything into the stylistic mix, and they have an eclectic good time with it. The use of “Christmas" in the album title is a bit of a misnomer, since only about half of the songs actually are Christmas songs--the rest have more general holiday or winter season themes. The opener, a jump blues cover of Jimmy Charles' ...
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