The Hot Sardines
Artist Description
Take a blustery brass
lineup, layer it over a rhythm section led by a Fats Waller-style
stride-piano virtuoso, and tie the whole thing together with a magnetic,
one-of-the-boys frontwoman whose voice recalls another era, and you
have the Hot Sardines, an NYC outfit (with a tap dancer) that’s been called “consistently electrifying live”
(Popmatters). The Sardine sound – wartime Paris via New Orleans, or the
other way around – is steeped in the kind of music Louis Armstrong,
Django Reinhardt and Waller used to make: Straight-up, foot-stomping
jazz. Pianist-bandleader Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and Paris-born singer Miz Elizabeth
(who owe their collaboration to meeting via Craigslist) describe their
band as “born in the 1920s, but raised in the ’00s,” reflecting a
philosophy that hot jazz, dixieland and Tin Pan Alley tunes are all pop
music, not historical artifact to be handled with kid gloves. The
Sardines started 2013 headlining the TCM Classic Cruise, are slated to
play the Great GoogaMooga Festival, the Spiegeltent and the Blue Note
Jazz festival, and continue to turn regular haunt The Standard Hotel
into a “saloon in the sky” (The Wall Street Journal).
