The Jitterbug Vipers
Monday
2nd December
£7adv
£8door
plus The Toy
Hearts
The Jitterbug Vipers specialize in a cult jazz
offshoot called “viper music,” a screeching U-Turn back to the party where jazz
music packed the dance floor and dazzled the audience with brilliant streams of
improvisatory musicianship.
Steeped in the ribald wit, quaint sophistication, and
graceful virtuosity of classic artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington,
and Count Basie, the Jitterbug Vipers make the sound their own. “We don’t think
of ourselves as a jazz band,” says bassist Francie Meaux Jeaux. “We think of
ourselves as a 1930s rock band. We just wail.” Raucous and refined, toking and
swinging, the Austin-based quartet draws the crowd into its heady bliss
whenever and wherever it takes the stage.
Support comes from The Toy Hearts, one of the UK’s
hottest acoustic acts right now whose style of music neatly places them at the
forefront of the resurgence of interest in folk and Americana music.
Fronted by sisters Hannah (mandolin) and Sophia
(guitar), accompanied by banjo/dobro, bass and fiddle, the band draws upon the
genres of Bluegrass, Western Swing and Gypsy Jazz for inspiration.
Remember;
always check with the venue before travelling, or grab a ticket direct from the
site: www.themusicianpub.co.uk
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