Jazz Articles about Chaise Lounge

About Chaise Lounge

Album Review

Chaise Lounge: Gin Fizz Fandango

Read "Gin Fizz Fandango" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
March 20, 2016

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 ...

Album Review

Chaise Lounge: A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas

Read "A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
December 21, 2015

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' ...