Harmonious Wail
Dec. 21st, 2013 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevins_concertsThey were billed as a jazz and gypsy jazz combo. They didn't hit on the gypsy jazz much, which was disappointing. Maybe they did less of it due to all the Christmas standards they had to play.
Smoldering vocals laced among the jazzy mandolin and guitar; an infectious blend of continental jazz, swing, gypsy music and melodic vocals.
The band is husband and wife Sims and Maggie, plus current bass player Jeffo. Sims plays mandolin. Maggie does vocals and percussion, which include brushes on a cardboard box and metal lampshade. Jeffo is quite talented on the upright bass (did he play bass guitar too?). Maggie is "equally at home scatting over a bebop tune, soaring on a solo, or blending with the Wail’s tight vocal harmonies, she delivers both powerhouse tunes and ballads with confidence and ease." Sims is all about the gyspy jazz and Django Reinhardt, or so his bio says, but as I mentioned, they didn't play much of it this night.
Smoldering vocals laced among the jazzy mandolin and guitar; an infectious blend of continental jazz, swing, gypsy music and melodic vocals.
The band is husband and wife Sims and Maggie, plus current bass player Jeffo. Sims plays mandolin. Maggie does vocals and percussion, which include brushes on a cardboard box and metal lampshade. Jeffo is quite talented on the upright bass (did he play bass guitar too?). Maggie is "equally at home scatting over a bebop tune, soaring on a solo, or blending with the Wail’s tight vocal harmonies, she delivers both powerhouse tunes and ballads with confidence and ease." Sims is all about the gyspy jazz and Django Reinhardt, or so his bio says, but as I mentioned, they didn't play much of it this night.