Big Rhythm Band - Swingin Xmas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The cream of London's session musicians joins forces with four of the most versatile singers around to deliver a spirited collection of everyone's favourite Christmas tunes, big band style. Joe Stilgoe is an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and songwriter with a rich musical heritage (his father is lyricist and entertainer Richard; his mother the opera singer Annabel Hunt). His live shows are a mixture of virtuosic musicianship and breathtaking theatricality, combining on the spot improvisation and the quickest of wits. The Sunday Times labelled him, InchA very British Harry Connick JrInch. Liane Carroll has been a pillar of the British jazz and soul scene for over thirty-five years.

On the Holiday Highway with the foremost purveyors of seasonal skiffle-swing and jug-infused revelry. Recorded live at 4 locations across Northern California, between 2006 and 2008. a tongue-in-cheek, festive convergence of San Francisco Bay Area luminaries Austin de Lone, Paul Rogers (Those Darn Accordions), Tim Eschliman (Commander Cody, Rhythmtown-Jive), Jim Rothermel (Van Morrison), Gregory Leroy Dewey, Turtle Vandermarr (Freak Mountain Ramblers), Blake Richardson, Ken InchSnakebiteInch Jacobs (Kinky Friedman, Nightcrawlers), Antoni Lech Wyerzynski, Anthony Paule, Bowen Brown, Knucklehead McGurk. Special guests include Country Joe McDonald, Norton Buffalo, Mike Duke, and Dan Hicks' Lickettes. Stalwart purveyors of the jugabilly mystique! Recording locations The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA; Paradise Performing Arts Center, Paradise, CA; Masonic Hall, Mill Valley, CA; Sweetwater Station, Larkspur, CA. Manufactured in the USA. Recyclable packaging. Tours planned for California, Oregon and Washington November and December 2009. Radio promotion by Songlines, Inc. IODA digital promotion, Globe Records web/mail order features.

Various Artists - Rhythm & Blues Christmas [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/01/1997