Double Bass Gypsy Jazz

[dhsierra1]

Brian Torff, who did those great piano/bass duos w/George Shearing in the late 70s is the musical director for the Django Reinhardt New York Festival. He's also a prof at Fairfield Univ in CT.

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[Sputter]

I love these guys, and the bass player does solo, and he's an incredible bass player, one of my favorites. He played with a lot of folks including Wayne Hancock. But this group is sort of a cowboy swing gyspy jazz group and it's great.

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[MrUsefulAlien]

Just came back from a John Jorgenson Quintet concert in a small venue in PA.
Man, they do a good job of gypsy-ing up other styles of music....there was some bossa, some tango, mediterranean stuff like greek music, and he did a magnificent job on the clarinet!
I had a chat with the guys afterwards, and they are all down to earth and easy to chat with.

Had a longer talk with Simon, and he is a great bassist, and just a great guy, with good humor, but also really opinionated and earnest.
He had a couple of solos, and generally his lines had quite a bit of movement and emotion in them.

I highly recommend seeing these guys live, or at least checking JJ's stuff out.