DESCRIPTION:
Hot Swing based in Toronto. Start with dance music from the 1920s, 30s & 40s. Add some rockabilly plus a dash of country and blues. Cook with an all-star band, and serve it up at your festival, dance, wedding or party. It's perfect on stage or in your home. New Orleans Rhythm features trumpeter Patrick Tevlin, leader of Toronto's Happy Pals; one of Toronto's finest young singers, Hannah Krapivinsky; Montreal pianist-singercomposer- bandleader Mike Evin on piano; and Toronto's Lucas Gadke on string bass.
As desired, New Orleans Rhythm can be enlarged to include clarinet, drums, guitar, you name it.
PATRICK TEVLIN'S NEW ORLEANS RHYTHM—FEATURING HANNAH
KRAPIVINSKY
Personnel: Patrick Tevlin, trumpet, vocal†; Hannah Krapivinsky, vocals*; Reide
Kaiser, piano; Colin Bray, string bass. Tevlin played reeds with Kid Bastien's band The Happy Pals, and, after Bastien's death in 2003, took over the band on trumpet. Kaiser and Bray are both members of Brian Towers' Hot Five Jazzmakers band in Toronto as well as other well-known groups there, and both have recorded quite extensively. Bray also the founded the Classic Jazz Society of Toronto in 1994 and has been its president since.
I had never heard of Ms. Krapivinsky, so after a little research, I discovered that
she is a Toronto native in her early twenties, who went to an arts high school in
Toronto. She sings with a band called Foxfire, which I had never heard of either,
and when I looked on the internet to see what kind of band it is, found that "Foxfire
fuses together a once-cherished disco sound with a bit of dance rock and a splash of
new wave—a disco rock sound."
Krapivinsky is no blues shouter, but she is a fine singer. She has a warm
voice and great diction and control, and she uses her vibrato to enhance what she
delivers. In effect, she could well be a big band singer of the thirties, and that is
almost what she is on this recording; although the big band is lacking, the trio
suffices to back her. She has been singing with Tevlin's group for the last several
years.