The Hot Sardines unleash their distinctly passionate, dazzling and inventive sound with their self-titled debut album on Decca/Universal Music Classics. The electrifying record, produced by Eli Wolf (Norah Jones, Elvis Costello & The Roots, Al Green), features both early jazz classics and original new Sardine compositions. Their album launch marks a defining moment in the Sardines’ evolution, which started as a slow burn fueled by a shared passion for music from another era, and escalated as the band’s performances ignited the same passion in audiences all over the world.
Bandleader and pianist Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and lead singer Miz Elizabeth combine with the Sardine ensemble of powerhouse musicians – and their very own tap dancer – to play hot jazz as it was in the era when live music was king. The outfit encompasses a blustery brass lineup, a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and Miz Elizabeth’s vocalizing in both English and French, with a voice that harkens back to another era yet feels refreshingly modern. The brainchild of Bibs and Miz Elizabeth, the Sardine sound fuses musical influences from New York, Paris, and New Orleans that were nurtured from the Prohibition era through the Great Depression, WWII and beyond. Other key members of the Sardine ensemble featured on the album include Jason Prover (trumpet), Joe McDonough (trombone), Nick Myers (tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute), Sam Raderman (guitar, banjo), Evan “Sugar” Crane (bass, sousaphone), Alex Raderman (drums, percussion) and “Fast Eddy” Francisco (tap dancing).
“Greats like Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Fred Astaire, Mamie Smith, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Ray Charles and a full-on melting pot of musicians both iconic and obscure have influenced our style and song interpretation,” says Miz Elizabeth, who helps fuel the Sardine mission to transform songs from another era into pop music for this century. Bibs shares that passion, and together they manage the delicate balance of showcasing old songs – some of them penned nearly a century ago – without being an “old-timey band.” Says Bibs, “We don’t treat this music with kid gloves, or place it on a pedestal to play it exactly as it was…We just play it…as if these songs were written this morning, for today’s generation.”
The first single and video from the album is the upbeat and infectious “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” (“To Me You’re Beautiful”), originally made popular by the Andrews Sisters and ironically recorded for the Decca label in 1937. Other highlights on the album include the ballads “Wake Up In Paris” (a string-drenched valentine Miz Elizabeth penned to her hometown) and Sidney Bechet’s “Petite Fleur,” the fast-paced, calypso-flavored version of “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” and raucous renditions of “Zazou (Sweet Sue)” and the witty “Your Feet’s Too Big,” a hat-tip to the band’s love of Fats Waller.
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Bandleader and pianist Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and lead singer Miz Elizabeth combine with the Sardine ensemble of powerhouse musicians – and their very own tap dancer – to play hot jazz as it was in the era when live music was king. The outfit encompasses a blustery brass lineup, a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and Miz Elizabeth’s vocalizing in both English and French, with a voice that harkens back to another era yet feels refreshingly modern. The brainchild of Bibs and Miz Elizabeth, the Sardine sound fuses musical influences from New York, Paris, and New Orleans that were nurtured from the Prohibition era through the Great Depression, WWII and beyond. Other key members of the Sardine ensemble featured on the album include Jason Prover (trumpet), Joe McDonough (trombone), Nick Myers (tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute), Sam Raderman (guitar, banjo), Evan “Sugar” Crane (bass, sousaphone), Alex Raderman (drums, percussion) and “Fast Eddy” Francisco (tap dancing).
“Greats like Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Fred Astaire, Mamie Smith, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Ray Charles and a full-on melting pot of musicians both iconic and obscure have influenced our style and song interpretation,” says Miz Elizabeth, who helps fuel the Sardine mission to transform songs from another era into pop music for this century. Bibs shares that passion, and together they manage the delicate balance of showcasing old songs – some of them penned nearly a century ago – without being an “old-timey band.” Says Bibs, “We don’t treat this music with kid gloves, or place it on a pedestal to play it exactly as it was…We just play it…as if these songs were written this morning, for today’s generation.”
The first single and video from the album is the upbeat and infectious “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” (“To Me You’re Beautiful”), originally made popular by the Andrews Sisters and ironically recorded for the Decca label in 1937. Other highlights on the album include the ballads “Wake Up In Paris” (a string-drenched valentine Miz Elizabeth penned to her hometown) and Sidney Bechet’s “Petite Fleur,” the fast-paced, calypso-flavored version of “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” and raucous renditions of “Zazou (Sweet Sue)” and the witty “Your Feet’s Too Big,” a hat-tip to the band’s love of Fats Waller.
The Hot Sardines unleash their distinctly passionate, dazzling and inventive sound with their self-titled debut album on Decca/Universal Music Classics. The electrifying record, produced by Eli Wolf (Norah Jones, Elvis Costello & The Roots, Al Green), features both early jazz classics and original new Sardine compositions. Their album launch marks a defining moment in the Sardines’ evolution, which started as a slow burn fueled by a shared passion for music from another era, and escalated as the band’s performances ignited the same passion in audiences all over the world.
Bandleader and pianist Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and lead singer Miz Elizabeth combine with the Sardine ensemble of powerhouse musicians – and their very own tap dancer – to play hot jazz as it was in the era when live music was king. The outfit encompasses a blustery brass lineup, a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and Miz Elizabeth’s vocalizing in both English and French, with a voice that harkens back to another era yet feels refreshingly modern. The brainchild of Bibs and Miz Elizabeth, the Sardine sound fuses musical influences from New York, Paris, and New Orleans that were nurtured from the Prohibition era through the Great Depression, WWII and beyond. Other key members of the Sardine ensemble featured on the album include Jason Prover (trumpet), Joe McDonough (trombone), Nick Myers (tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute), Sam Raderman (guitar, banjo), Evan “Sugar” Crane (bass, sousaphone), Alex Raderman (drums, percussion) and “Fast Eddy” Francisco (tap dancing).
“Greats like Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Fred Astaire, Mamie Smith, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Ray Charles and a full-on melting pot of musicians both iconic and obscure have influenced our style and song interpretation,” says Miz Elizabeth, who helps fuel the Sardine mission to transform songs from another era into pop music for this century. Bibs shares that passion, and together they manage the delicate balance of showcasing old songs – some of them penned nearly a century ago – without being an “old-timey band.” Says Bibs, “We don’t treat this music with kid gloves, or place it on a pedestal to play it exactly as it was…We just play it…as if these songs were written this morning, for today’s generation.”
The first single and video from the album is the upbeat and infectious “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” (“To Me You’re Beautiful”), originally made popular by the Andrews Sisters and ironically recorded for the Decca label in 1937. Other highlights on the album include the ballads “Wake Up In Paris” (a string-drenched valentine Miz Elizabeth penned to her hometown) and Sidney Bechet’s “Petite Fleur,” the fast-paced, calypso-flavored version of “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” and raucous renditions of “Zazou (Sweet Sue)” and the witty “Your Feet’s Too Big,” a hat-tip to the band’s love of Fats Waller.
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Bandleader and pianist Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and lead singer Miz Elizabeth combine with the Sardine ensemble of powerhouse musicians – and their very own tap dancer – to play hot jazz as it was in the era when live music was king. The outfit encompasses a blustery brass lineup, a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and Miz Elizabeth’s vocalizing in both English and French, with a voice that harkens back to another era yet feels refreshingly modern. The brainchild of Bibs and Miz Elizabeth, the Sardine sound fuses musical influences from New York, Paris, and New Orleans that were nurtured from the Prohibition era through the Great Depression, WWII and beyond. Other key members of the Sardine ensemble featured on the album include Jason Prover (trumpet), Joe McDonough (trombone), Nick Myers (tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute), Sam Raderman (guitar, banjo), Evan “Sugar” Crane (bass, sousaphone), Alex Raderman (drums, percussion) and “Fast Eddy” Francisco (tap dancing).
“Greats like Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Fred Astaire, Mamie Smith, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Ray Charles and a full-on melting pot of musicians both iconic and obscure have influenced our style and song interpretation,” says Miz Elizabeth, who helps fuel the Sardine mission to transform songs from another era into pop music for this century. Bibs shares that passion, and together they manage the delicate balance of showcasing old songs – some of them penned nearly a century ago – without being an “old-timey band.” Says Bibs, “We don’t treat this music with kid gloves, or place it on a pedestal to play it exactly as it was…We just play it…as if these songs were written this morning, for today’s generation.”
The first single and video from the album is the upbeat and infectious “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” (“To Me You’re Beautiful”), originally made popular by the Andrews Sisters and ironically recorded for the Decca label in 1937. Other highlights on the album include the ballads “Wake Up In Paris” (a string-drenched valentine Miz Elizabeth penned to her hometown) and Sidney Bechet’s “Petite Fleur,” the fast-paced, calypso-flavored version of “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” and raucous renditions of “Zazou (Sweet Sue)” and the witty “Your Feet’s Too Big,” a hat-tip to the band’s love of Fats Waller.
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