Satin Swing - Terry Eaton
on Roland Keyboard

Fridays and Saturdays 6:30pm at
Scupper Jack’s
Restaurant & Bar
Rt. 2A, 3 Nagog Park (Mall)
Acton, MA 01720
(978) 263-8327

 


Bob MacInnis


Bruce Burrell

 

CD:   Just the Two of Us
Terry Eaton & Bob MacInnis
of Satin Swing

Stardust, Do It Again, A Sleepy Lagoon, Street of Dreams, Danny Boy, Begin the Beguine, Only an Angel, A Sleepin’ Bee, With a Song in My Heart, It Had To Be You, No Love, No Nothin’, It’s the Mood That I’m In, My Funny Valentine, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Here Am I Broken Hearted, You Made Me Love You, Stranger on the Shore, I Can’t Get Started, I’m Old Fashioned, The Folks That Live on the Hill, The Man I Love, I thought About You, That’s All. 

Recorded, mixed & mastered at PBS, Westwood MA. Engineer, Peter Kontrimas. Design & Liner Notes, Mary Demaso. Contributors: Jean Kelly, Ruth Schwab, Robin Verdier. Photography with the cooperation of ScupperJacks’s. 

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This inaugural Satin Swing CD skims joyfully across the surface of the remarkable collaboration of Terry Eaton and Bob MacInnis, barely but delightfully sampling the fountain of music at their fingertips.  Players of impressive versatility and scope, Terry and Bob, along with reed man, Bruce Burrell, constitute the core of a group known for its elegant sound and extensive repertoire.

Terry on keyboard, Bob flugelhornAs a regular feature of Friday and Saturday nights at ScupperJack’s in Acton MA since 1992, Satin Swing has developed an immense songbook comprising 100 years of American music, ranging from the rarely played gem to the familiar tones of such icons of the culture as Berlin, Gershwin, Porter, and Rogers.  Bob and Terry’s apparent arrangements on this CD are, like their ScupperJack evenings, entirely impromptu renderings of those works.  Terry remarks that they have an uncanny ability to read each other’s thoughts mid-song; she admits, however, that no piece will ever be played the same way twice.
 

In these tracks, Bob MacInnis effortlessly transposes his distinctively sweet clear tone from the cornet to the flugelhorn to the clarinet with hardly a breath in between.  With uncommon facility and characteristically impeccable timing, he swaps from reeds to brass and back.  Simultaneously, as musicians who have played with her will attest, Terry Eaton’s left hand evokes from her Roland keyboard a sophisticated rhythm and bass line, while her right hand creates an apparently infinite array of harmony and chords, sustaining the boundless encyclopedia of melodies and arrangements mysteriously catalogued somewhere inside her head.  As Bob says, she has the amazing ability to make her one keyboard sound as though it were three entirely distinct instruments.

Indeed, many a ScupperJack’s patron has migrated after dinner to the restaurant’s upper level expecting to see a five or six piece band; the inevitable startled comments is, “Just two of you?”  As the 23 tracks on this CD demonstrate, for just beautiful music, just two is quite fine.

….Robin Verdier, Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble

  “This CD was certainly long overdue! Terry and Bob are giving you just a small sample of their huge repertoire of tunes from the Great American Songbook, which they perform beautifully.  Their interpretation of this music makes for joyful listening.”                       ….Ruth Schwab, Wunderbar

   Harmony is the clue to good living and certainly to good music.  Terry and Bob are perfect examples of this and have enhanced my band over the years in a most wonderful way.  They simply "Get it" when they play together -- no rehearsing is necessary.  They feel it and play it.   I look forward to this new CD and wish them continued glorious harmony!"          ....Jean Kelly

For CD: Call Terry at (781) 862-2119, or send $15 plus $2 for shipping and handling to:

Terry Eaton
23 Hastings Rd.
Lexington MA 02421

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Terry Eaton, Roland Keyboard

Terry Eaton has played the trumpet and piano professionally since childhood.  In New York she was a three time winner on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour on national radio and television and subsequently was a featured soloist with the Ted Mack Variety Show on Tour, in 38 of the United States and throughout Canada.  While on tour, she appeared at Madison Square Garden in NY, the Flamingo and the Sands in Las Vegas, the Cow Palace in San Francisco, and the Palmer House in Chicago.  In Boston she played with the Ed Sullivan Show at the Opera House and was a soloist with the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra on the Perry Como Show at Symphony Hall.  More recently, she has played trumpet and flugelhorn with Jean Kelly Jazz, Robin Verdier, and other groups. 

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Bob MacInnis, Cornet, Flugelhorn, & Clarinet

A player adept at an impressive array of instruments and a versatile arranger and composer, Bob MacInnis is at home in musical styles extending from Dixieland to swing to classical.  As leader of the New Liberty Jazz Band he as appeared in countless New England venues, including Fenway Park and Patriots' Stadium, and has played for several U.S. Presidents.  He has also been a regular member of the Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble, Squirrel ill Olde Tyme Jazz Band, the Happy Feet Orchestra, Jean Kelly Jazz, and several other combos, and is a featured player on an array of those groups' recordings.  Previously, he played with the 82nd Airborne Division and 18th Army Airborne Corps Bands.  He is an original member of Satin Swing and has played regularly at ScupperJack's since 1997.

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Terry talks to BobBob & Terry want to express their thanks to Peter Kontrimas, Deborah Lynne Eaton, Rob MacInnis, and Mary Demaso for their assistance in the reproduction of this recording, to Jean Kelly, Ruth Schwab and Robin Verdier for their kind words, to Jack Mendosa, Don Cernak, Chris Mendosa and Brad Mendosa at ScupperJack's, their friends from Cleveland, Kray and Norman, and to all tose who have listened to and supported their music.

Additionally Bob wants to thank Terry for finally agreeing to make this CD and for the composition of "Only an Angel," which is dedicated to the memory of their respective mothers.  Terry appreciates Bob's willingness to accede to her musical whims without complaint.

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