The Hot Sardines
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Sep 4, 2019 7 PM
Location
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320 Cedar St
Details
“These are times that need live music. And I don’t know of anything that brings people together like the joy of hearing traditional jazz live,” says Elizabeth Bougerol, co-leader of The Hot Sardines, with pianist and bandleader, Evan Palazzo. These mischief-makers of hot jazz have been described as “potent and assured” (The New York Times) and “simply phenomenal” (The Times, London), with more than a year on the Billboard Jazz chart and 20+ million streams on Spotify. The timing couldn’t be better for their next live album, Welcome Home, Bon Voyage.
“Everything in our DNA is about connecting with the audience. That’s where we feel most at home,” says Bougerol, of playing live with the eight-piece band (including one wildly percussive tap dancer). The Hot Sardines have gone from speakeasies and underground parties in Brooklyn, to festival crowds of 25,000 and a TV debut on Later… with Jools Holland. “That’s where jazz lives,” adds Evan. “In the playing, in sharing that experience, in coming together to create a moment that won’t happen again.”
Highlights on Welcome Home, Bon Voyage include a modern twist on the syncopated, soaring “Everybody Loves My Baby” to an irresistibly dissonant take on Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol’s “Caravan”, as well as the hushed, playful “Exactly Like You” and an interpretation of “Some of These Days,” that turns Sophie Tucker’s 1910 trademark into a boisterous beguine. To honor New Orleans’ 300th anniversary, the band finishes with a second line, turning the entire 1200-strong crowd into a second-line Mardi Gras parade.
