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Indigo Swing | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 14, 1998)
• Original Release Date: July 14, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Time Bomb
• ASIN: B000009E8I
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,088 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #64 in Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz > Retro Swing

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Primaro Magnifico Neo-Swing......, March 5, 2005

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Steven Mashin "Lindy Hopper Affectionato" (San Francisco Bay, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Aboard (Audio CD)

What a delicious collection of music this treat is! Dynamic & danceable throughout. This is Neo-Swing @ its finest. Looking for that special something that is `all meat & potatoes'? Tired of the ` kibbles & bits' so prevalent in the releases of recorded music? (Usually one purchases a CD, & gets 2 or 3 nice pieces, & the rest is filler). This collection is easy to dance to, vibrant & happy, or steamy & sensual. Exciting music, so alive w/ lots of fun breaks, runs, & accents- emphasizing horns & a stride/jazz woogie/boogie woogie piano. Harmonies delicately blending in and out to unquestionably quantify their musicality understanding. Then, there is Johnny Boyd.... Johnny Boyd IS the vocals that are very smooth, about as smooth as you can get them. He repeatedly exercises that special & velvety sound- melting in that extra smoothness, almost as if they were built for swing music. Watch out for those saxophone accents, you can almost see them building!!! I have memorized all the breaks & accents & a better collection of music is far & few between. In regards to dancing- This IS Lindy Hop & East Coast Swing, with a tempo (I'd say is 100-160ish BPM). In closing, there are very few pieces of music I would classify as a `gotta have', but this is a true gotta have. Okay, don't/can't dance? Fine. It's all GOOD!! The lyrics of this album SWING of Beauty, Hope, Life & its flavor and passion that sums up what both life and love are about...good times, regrets, fun, and more fun! "Regular Joe" & "How Lucky...," just the titles alone, sums up what this whole disc is about and the good things that happen to regular people (Oh, what a dance number!!!!). `How Lucky Can One Guy Be', often brings me sunny days when the clouds of life overcast my views of things. Graciously Yours, Steven R. Mashin- Oregon City, Oregon.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent swing album, July 16, 1998

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Claude Avary "West Coast Reader" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Aboard (Audio CD)

This is the second album from the San Francisco based swing sextet, featuring their new line-up (permanent guitarist, and a new drummer and upright bass player). Although I miss some of the more energeic covers that graced their first album, this is still a teriffic effort, with original standouts "Regular Joe" (played with the Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra) "What's the Matter Baby" and "How Lucky." And they finally found a space for their perennial personal number, "Baron Plays the Horses," written about their sax player (the musical backbone of the band). Johnny Boyd still has the best singing voice in swing jazz, embarassing just about every other band's front man -- just compare him to the intolerable screech of "Cherry Poppin's Daddies" and you'll realize what a sublime pleasure a practiced, unified jazz band can be.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun and good tunes, April 23, 2004

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Robert Miller (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Aboard (Audio CD)

This CD is a blast. The songs are catchy and infectious. I regret not hearing these guys when they were together. If you want a good, bubbly album that doesn't have one bad song on it...this is it. I would compare their style more to the Louie Jordan school.....almost a bridge between traditional swing and early rock/boogie woogie styles. I can even hear a catchy ska sound on some of the tracks. Fantastic album.