Time: 77:55
Size: 178.4 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2016
Art: Front
[3:10] 1. Back In Your Own Back Yard
[3:00] 2. I Never Knew
[3:34] 3. Slidin' And Glidin'
[3:22] 4. Seven Come Eleven
[3:28] 5. Pick-A-Rib
[4:02] 6. A Mellow Bit Of Rhythm
[3:08] 7. Sweets
[3:08] 8. There'll Be Some Changes Made
[3:20] 9. Fine And Mellow
[3:36] 10. Bug In A Rug
[3:16] 11. He Ain't Got Rhythm
[4:06] 12. Who's Sorry Now
[3:28] 13. Woke Up Clipped
[3:33] 14. Rose Room
[3:15] 15. What A Night, What A Moon, What A Boy
[4:20] 16. Crazy About Lester
[2:37] 17. Scottie
[3:46] 18. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
[2:36] 19. Airmail Special (Bonus Track)
[2:57] 20. Pennies From Heaven (Bonus Track)
[2:51] 21. Twenty Four Hours A Day (Bonus Track)
[3:00] 22. Disorder At The Border (Bonus Track)
[4:17] 23. I Left My Baby (Bonus Track)
Michael Gamble, Bass; Keenan McKenzie, Clarinet and Saxes; Jonathan Stout, Lead Guitar; Paul Cosentino, Clarinet and Saxes; Russ Wilson, Vocals and Drums; Brooks Prumo, Rhythm Guitar; Gordon Au, Trumpet; Craig Gildner, Piano; Noah Hocker, Trumpet; James Posedel, Piano; Josh Collazo, Drums; Lucian Cobb, Trombone; Laura Windley, Vocals; David Wilken, Trombone. It was such an honor to make a record with this terrific lineup of musicians. We recorded this album live at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, during the days following Lindy Focus XIV. With all of the energy of the event at our backs, making a live recording was the most natural thing in the world, and we’re grateful for all the people who helped make that circumstance possible.
Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders are a hard swinging and stylistically faithful ensemble created in the mold of the late 1930’s, early 1940’s dance band. Their sound is characterized by an aggressive four-on-the-floor time-feel, thick & riffy horn arrangements, and an eclectic songbook that touches on the sweet and sentimental as well as the hot and bothered. Typically the band plays either as a Sextet or Octet, and each version of the group explores different avenues of the classic repertoire.
The Sextet specializes in careful transcriptions and subtle adaptations of The Benny Goodman Sextet, with thoughtful forays into the small combos Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw. The many famous sidemen and alumni of those various bands are given plenty of love as well. With Laura Windley featured on vocals, the band also explores the wonderful songbook left behind by Billie Holiday during her years with Brunswick, where she and Teddy Wilson pulled together some of the hardest swinging players to bring to life some of the greatest pop tunes ever written.
The Octet performs arrangements that were popularized not by the large orchestras or small combos, but the many medium-sized outfits that worked during the time such as those led by Fletcher Henderson, the Coleman Hawkins All Stars, various Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton side groups, the Dickie Wells and Willie Bryant orchestras, and more. They dig up material that will be instantly familiar to vintage music aficionados and swing dancers even if it never made it to the Greatest Hits compilations of the day.
Bandleader Michael Gamble’s 15+ years in the international swing scene inform every aspect of the band’s repertoire and taste.
Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders are a hard swinging and stylistically faithful ensemble created in the mold of the late 1930’s, early 1940’s dance band. Their sound is characterized by an aggressive four-on-the-floor time-feel, thick & riffy horn arrangements, and an eclectic songbook that touches on the sweet and sentimental as well as the hot and bothered. Typically the band plays either as a Sextet or Octet, and each version of the group explores different avenues of the classic repertoire.
The Sextet specializes in careful transcriptions and subtle adaptations of The Benny Goodman Sextet, with thoughtful forays into the small combos Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw. The many famous sidemen and alumni of those various bands are given plenty of love as well. With Laura Windley featured on vocals, the band also explores the wonderful songbook left behind by Billie Holiday during her years with Brunswick, where she and Teddy Wilson pulled together some of the hardest swinging players to bring to life some of the greatest pop tunes ever written.
The Octet performs arrangements that were popularized not by the large orchestras or small combos, but the many medium-sized outfits that worked during the time such as those led by Fletcher Henderson, the Coleman Hawkins All Stars, various Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton side groups, the Dickie Wells and Willie Bryant orchestras, and more. They dig up material that will be instantly familiar to vintage music aficionados and swing dancers even if it never made it to the Greatest Hits compilations of the day.
Bandleader Michael Gamble’s 15+ years in the international swing scene inform every aspect of the band’s repertoire and taste.
Michael Gamble & The Rhythm Serenaders