Time: 35:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz: New Orleans Swing, Jive
Art: Front
01. Salad Days (2:50)
02. The Devil In Despair (2:56)
03. Nancy (3:52)
04. Sausage Tree (3:35)
05. My Belle (3:17)
06. The Day I Go (3:20)
07. Mummy's Finger (3:08)
08. Hunger (3:05)
09. Louis Armstrong's Telephone (3:32)
10. Animal Soul (3:01)
11. This Time I'm Right (3:14)
SWING NINJAS evolved from a paired-down 3 piece busking band (the highest paid canapé trio on the South Coast!), via 2 self-released (and swiftly super-ceded) cover version CDs (selling literally thousands of on the streets), to their current fully-formed incarnation as a New Orleans style big-band just signed to hip dance-based imprint FRESHLY SQUEEZED.
This album is their first of original material and features a 7-piece line-up of superb jazz talent plus assorted guests and backing singers. From such inauspicious beginnings,DO YA HALLELUJAH? comes as a revelation. A mongrel cross between Squirrel Nut Zippers, True Detective, Pokey LaFarge and Graham Green.It’s a blackly humorous and distinctly wry British gumbo of songs about life, lust & penitence. We love its quirky world-view.
The superb song writing and musicianship speak for themselves, but like a Louisianafuneral procession marching past the daytime juke-joint, DO YA HALLELUJAH? is an open door to a subterranean jazz cellar; a clarion call to the alley in Brighton’s labyrinthine Lanes. A place that lives in the imagination of the world. It’s early Dr John, loose living, late night bars, ‘resting’ thespians, a slipper-clad octogenarian land-lady, dusty parlour palms, clock menders and card sharps. This is the SWING NINJAS.
This album is their first of original material and features a 7-piece line-up of superb jazz talent plus assorted guests and backing singers. From such inauspicious beginnings,DO YA HALLELUJAH? comes as a revelation. A mongrel cross between Squirrel Nut Zippers, True Detective, Pokey LaFarge and Graham Green.It’s a blackly humorous and distinctly wry British gumbo of songs about life, lust & penitence. We love its quirky world-view.
The superb song writing and musicianship speak for themselves, but like a Louisianafuneral procession marching past the daytime juke-joint, DO YA HALLELUJAH? is an open door to a subterranean jazz cellar; a clarion call to the alley in Brighton’s labyrinthine Lanes. A place that lives in the imagination of the world. It’s early Dr John, loose living, late night bars, ‘resting’ thespians, a slipper-clad octogenarian land-lady, dusty parlour palms, clock menders and card sharps. This is the SWING NINJAS.
Do Ya Hallelujah?