Jazz Articles about Indigo Swing

Indigo Swing: Red Light!

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1999

This sound has many fathers. Like a lot of modern swing there’s a foot in jump blues, but you hear other things too. There’s some backwoods boogie, a dab of calypso – and a great whiff of rock in its baby years. The influences are decades apart, and they work good together, for a different sound. It might not be “authentic” (whatever that means), but it sure is fun!

The band whoops up a slow drive, heavy sax and light ...