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'Opaluna' by Opaluna, Ridgeway Records, is a Samba Salsa Swing Folk Hippie Bonanza [REVIEW]
'Michael Gamble & the Rhythm Serenaders' Prove Swing is Still the Thing, Organic [REVIEW]
Nowadays, when it comes to swing music, such bands as Svetlana & The Delancey Five and Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks party like its 1939. The self-titled debut by Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders (Organic Records) contains 18 songs from jump-blues and ballads to wild Lindy Hop dance tracks. Turn back the clock! Brooklyn's Wild Slavic Soul Party! 'Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite,' Ropeadope [REVIEW]
If you can imagine a Balkan brass band interpreting The Duke Ellington Orchestra's landmark 1963 'Far East Suite,' than you have an idea of what the New Yorkers in Slavic Soul Party! are doing on their latest outrage on Ropeadope Records as the band 'Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite.