Results for "Hot Club of Detroit"

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J'Attendrai

Featuring the music of Hot Club of Detroit
Duration: 4:52
July 29, 2009

Members of the Hot Club of Detroit do an on the spot performance of "J'Attendrai" - a tune from their new Mack Avenue CD "Night Town".

Article: Album Review

Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town

by Jay Deshpande
May 16, 2009

The Hot Club of Detroit will without a doubt soon be among the most popular bands playing in the gypsy tradition of jazz manouche. Django Reinhardt's band, the Hot Club de France, first brought the fiery, flamenco-infused sound to the realm of jazz. In homage to and elaboration of the tradition, the HCOD presents its sophomore ...

Article: Album Review

Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town

by Matthew Warnock
April 22, 2009

The Hot Club of Detroit's Night Town is a tour de force full of hard-swinging, toe-tapping arrangements of gypsy jazz standards and original compositions penned by members of the ensemble. Having won four Detroit Music Awards, Shannon Wade (bass), Carl Cafagna (clarinet), Evan Perri (guitar), Julien Labro (accordion) and Paul Brady (guitar) are setting their sites ...

Album

Night Town

By Hot Club Of Detroit

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: I Want To Be Happy; J'Attendrai; Valse a Rosenthal; Seven Steps to Heaven; Speevy; Coquette; Sweet Substitute; Blues Up and Down; Pour Parler; Melodie Au Crepuscule, Two Weeks; Tzigane; Django's Monkey; Night Town; Swing 05.

Article: Album Review

Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town

by Ken Dryden
November 15, 2008

The Hot Club of Detroit is one of many bands that have been inspired by the work of Django Reinhardt with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, though leader and guitarist Evan Perri's group omits the violin, instead utilizing accordion and saxophone. Yet the band's second CD doesn't exclusively stick to Gypsy jazz and ...

News: Recording

The Hot Club of Detroit CD Night Town

July 10, 2008

The Hot Club of Detroit has always walked a delicate tightrope, honoring its commitment to the nostalgia of Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz with the recognition that jazz and American culture didn't stop evolving in 1944. If the band looks too far into the past, it becomes simply an exercise in musical dress-up. If it looks too ...

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Swing One

Featuring the music of Hot Club Of Detroit
Duration: 4:00
March 1, 2007

Hot Club of Detroit finds its inspiration from the famous Quintette Du Hot Club du France made famous by jazz guitar pioneer Django Reinhardt and violin master Stephane Grappelli. Pioneered by founder Evan Perri, this exciting, young ensemble includes a lead acoustic guitar, two rhythm acoustic guitars, clarinet, chromatic button accordion, and stand-up string bass. Hot Club Of Detroit combines their decidedly modern edge with the classic European jazz of the 30s to create a new form of Gypsy fire!