CartMar 17, 2018
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
Great songs of the Swing Era referencing the “high life” of excess from the likes of Cab Calloway and Ella Fitzgerald.
ABOUT LAVAY SMITH
Nobody plays classic jump-blues and jazz with more punch and authority than Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Fronted by the sultry Smith, an alluring singer whose style draws on Dinah Washington and Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Little Esther Phillips, the band performs tasty arrangements of tunes from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, as well as original numbers, for fans across the United States, Canada and Europe. The seven-piece Red Hot Skillet Lickers, led by arranger and pianist Chris Siebert, features a rogue’s gallery of robustly swinging soloists who cut their teeth with everyone from Big Joe Turner to Ray Charles.
A rogue’s gallery of robustly swinging soloists.
Hands-down the best thing to come out of the jump/swing revival...the gal can sing her tail off.
Seattle Times
Hands-down the best thing to come out of the jump/swing revival...the gal can sing her tail off.
Seattle Times
Watch & Listen
Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher
Fats Waller
The Reefer Song
Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher
Fats Waller
The Reefer Song
MAR 9–18 | WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION
MAR 9
Celtic To Alice Coltrane
Destiny MuhammadMAR 10
Singer and Trombonist
Natalie CressmanMAR 11
Hot Jazz Trumpet
Bria SkonbergMAR 15
MAR 16
Red, White, & Blues
Lavay Smith: Songs of America's Great Cities, States, and RegionsMAR 18
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Lavay Smith: The Songs of Harold Arlen