Jazz Articles about The Basin Street Brawlers

The Basin Street Brawlers: It's Tight Like That

by Bruce Lindsay
May 20, 2014

It's Tight Like That! is the debut release from the Basin Street Brawlers. Self-styled “purveyors of hot jazz"--indeed, with laudable hubris, “London's own master exponents of hot jazz"--the Basin Street Brawlers hark back to a bygone age, when sharp suits were de rigueur and bands that failed to get their audiences dancing would soon be excluded from polite society. The hubris is (at least partly) tongue-in-cheek and the band has the chops to back up its claims. There's ...