Results for "Giacomo Smith"

Giacomo Smith

Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan

By Zara McFarlane

Label: Eternal Source Of Light
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tenderly; Mean To Me; Inner City Blues; September Song; Great Day; If You Could See Me Now; Interlude; Obsession; The Mystery of Man; Stardust; Sweet Whispers.

Tangent

Label: Swing Underground
Released: 2020
Track listing: Jaguar, Convergence, Dame Ivre, Tangent, Pseudo Nemesis, Pop Pop Blues, Alcatraz, Racer X, Talkie Walkie, Je ne sais pas, Bayou Blues

Things Happened Here

By Giacomo Smith

Label: Ever / !K7
Released: 2020
Track listing: Riders; Dreamlane; Two Dancers; Sambre Et Meuse; Alcazar; Temple Of Bel; Sunnyland; Things Happened Here; Judgement.

Michael Joseph Harris Releases New Albums Showcasing Contemporary And Traditional Gypsy Jazz

October 8, 2020

Inspired by the legendary Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), Baltimore guitarist and bandleader Michael Joseph Harris leads two Gypsy jazz bands. Comprised of the same core members, both are releasing their fourth albums in North America and Europe in 2020 on the Swing Underground label. With the help of numerous guest artists, they are busting the boundaries of ...

Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here

by Chris May
June 25, 2020

Kansas Smitty's is the house band at a London jazz bar of the same name. Band and bar are fronted by the American-Italian alto saxophonist, clarinetist and bass clarinetist Giacomo Smith, who with guitarist David Archer wrote most of the material on this album. The band's style embraces swing era Kansas City through to more recent ...

Peter Horsfall: Nighthawks

by Bruce Lindsay
December 2, 2017

The title of Peter Horsfall's Nighthawks may call to mind the iconic Edward Hopper painting, or maybe Tom Waits' Hopper-inspired Nighthawks At The Diner (Asylum, 1975). A few bars into “Nighthawks" it becomes obvious that Horsfall and Waits both take inspiration from the painting ("Nighthawks lead a lonely life...")--but Horsfall's melancholy vocal stands in sharp contrast ...

Kansas Smitty's House Band: Kansas Smitty's

by Bruce Lindsay
November 9, 2015

Kansas Smitty's is the debut album from the eight-piece Kansas Smitty's House Band, a London-based octet with an open approach to the integration of many jazz styles. The result is a refreshingly original debut album filled with some of the catchiest and most engaging music around. House bands have a long history, playing regular ...