Showing posts with label Indigo Swing. Show all posts
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December 16, 2022

Indigo Swing - Indigo Swing (1995), All Aboard! (1998), Red Light! (1999)

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It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That (Indigo) Swing*
3 : the number of albums released by Indigo Swing, the number of founding members present on each of the 3 albums  (lead singer John “Johnny Boyd” Boydston, pianist William Beatty, saxophonist Barry "Baron Shul" Shumway), and the number of the other members featured on the last two albums (guitarist Josh Workman, Upright bassist Vance Ehlers, drummer “Big Jim” Overton).

6 : the number of guests featured on the band's albums (bassist Little David, guitarists Danny Caron & Rusty Zinn on "Indigo Swing", percussionist Robin Tolleson & trumpeter Scott Steen on “Red Light!”). 14 : the number of tracks on each album.

2 : the number of words (Swing Revival ) that describe the 1990s musical stream which originated mainly in California, inspired by the big bands of the 1930s-1940s swing era, mixing swing jazz and jump blues (influenced by artists like Louis Prima or the theatrical Cab Calloway) with elements of rockabilly, boogie-woogie, and sometimes ska. This Big Band nostalgia gave birth to bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, to cite only the most famous, and… Indigo Swing.