CartMar 15, 2018
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
Lavay Smith and her diamond-sharp band interpret the joyous songs of two of the great jazz pioneers and innovators: Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong.
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
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Squeeze Me
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
When the Saints Go Marching In
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Squeeze Me
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
When the Saints Go Marching In
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 16
Red, White, & Blues
Lavay Smith: Songs of America's Great Cities, States, and RegionsMAR 17
Rhythm, Booze, & Reefer Madness
Lavay Smith: Taboo JazzMAR 18
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Lavay Smith: The Songs of Harold Arlen