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The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks! Extravaganza with the Record Company at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury
by Mike Perciaccante
The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks! Extravaganza with the Record Company NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY November 25, 2014 Brian Setzer must really love Christmastime. The rockabilly guitarslinger has been bringing his annual Holiday Spectacular to the NYCB Theatre at Westbury for a number of years. This show as with all of his Christmas Rocks! performances with his orchestra was an extremely high-energy offering that featured not just holiday classics, but Stray Cats materials ...
Continue ReadingThe Brian Setzer Orchestra: Christmas Comes Alive
by C. Michael Bailey
Since 1994, former Stray Cats' guitarist Brian Setzer has led his own big band, specializing in a hybrid of rock and swing that was thought to have died with Bill Haley and the Comets. Also since that time, Setzer has made a cottage industry of playing holiday music with his big band, releasing Boogie Woogie Christmas (Surfdog Records, 2002), Dig That Crazy Christmas (Surfdog Records, 2005), and two compilations--The Best of Collection--Christmas Rocks (Surfdog, 2008), and Ultimate Christmas CollectionSurfdog Records, ...
Continue ReadingBrian Setzer Orchestra - Christmas Comes Alive (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Brian Setzer, an unjustly unheralded guitarist, has this knack for connecting with the redux zeitgeist. In the 1980s, it was rockabilly. In the last decade, big-band jump blues. More recently, Setzer has used that template for a series of popular holiday-themed albums. For me, though, these studio efforts have been more admirable than entirely convincing. Not so here, as the Setzer group, indeed, comes alive on a 15-song disc recorded last year during a stop in Knoxville, ...
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
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