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Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles

Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles: Gin & Moonlight

by James Nadal
August 26, 2017

Long before jazz became a spectator event, it was dance music. The big bands that played swing made their reputations on being able to flood the floor with dancers. Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles are on a mission to bring back those days, and Gin & Moonlight has them on the right track. Formed in ...

High Fidelity

By Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Slow Cookin'; Obviously; The Pen Is Mightier; The Baltiquerque Stomp; Benny's Blues; Chubby's On The Way; Chelsea After Dark; Gin & Tonic; It's Alright For A Night; Dark Elixir; The Gherkin Train; Slow Cookin' (reprise).

Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles: High Fidelity

by Budd Kopman
August 17, 2015

The Swing Era, usually thought of as the late 1930s to the early 1940s, is that one unique time when jazz was America's pop music. While this is not the place to go into the history of that period or its precedents, suffice it to say that the bands of say, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn ...