Billy Novick's Blue Syncopaters,
featuring SUNNY CROWNOVER on
vocals
Friday January 25th 8pm, at Amazing Things Arts Center,
160 Hollis St.
Framingham, MA
For INFO and TICKETS:
508.405.2787
THE BAND
Billy Novick, reeds
John Clark- reeds
Mike
Peipman, trumpet
Dan
Fox, trombone
Ross
Petot, piano
Stu
Gunn, bass and tuba
Bill
Reynolds, drums
And featuring SUNNY CROWNOVER on
vocals
The band will be performing Billy
Novick's score for The Great Gatsby
right before we take it on the road to
perform it with the Sacramento Ballet.
This may be one of the last
opportunities to hear the score
performed.*
Here's what the critics say:
From The Washington Post
" Bringing in
Boston-based jazz expert Billy Novick and his band ...
was a brilliant move.
The result is that for its musical splendors alone
"Gatsby" is a remarkable event, an evening of explosive,
ticklish and swooning live jazz (songs of the era,
filled out with Novick's compositions), played with a
verve to spark your thirst for hooch. Especially
wonderful are the dark and cinematic early Ellington
tunes ("East St. Louis Toodle-oo," "Saturday Night
Function"), percolating jammers such as Tommy Dorsey's
sly "It's Tight Like That," and Irving Berlin's
ruminative "What'll I Do?" -- which echoes through the
ballet as the theme for Jay Gatsby's romantic longings."
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*Then again, it may NOT be the last time
to hear it performed, but are you
willing to take the risk and not show
up- and maybe never see it? Honestly,
it's a risk I'd probably take, as I like
to think of myself as a guy who lives
live dangerously, always on the
edge...well, at least when actually I
leave my house, that is. But that's a
whole other story.
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