Galvanized Jazz Band
at the 2012 Jazz & Blues Extravaganza
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Skyler Hagner alto sax, with the Galvanized Jazz
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The Galvanized Jazz Band was one of the first Jazz
Bands to bring New Orleans Traditional and Dixieland Jazz into the New
England area.
Fred Vigorito cornet, Russ Whitman clarinet alto sax, Bill Sinclair
piano, Bob Bequillard drums, Art Hovey tuba/string bass, Craig Grant
trombone, Cynthia Fabian vocals.
They immediately set sparks flying with a feisty
Oh Baby.
Louis’s Hot 5 - 1920’s set the stage for all that came after,
Louis's Sunset Café Stomp.
Fred Vigorito drives the band with his hot, dynamic cornet.
His major influences were Louis Armstrong, Kid Thomas, Kid
Howard, Wild Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett, Muggsy Spanier, Ruby Braff. No wonder.
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With a variety of instruments,
versatile Russ Whitman is one of the most sought after reed men in
the business. He's played with Jimmy Dapogny’s fabulous Chicago
Jazz Band. |
Louis Prima wrote their next tune in1946, Sunday Kind of Love
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Grant began playing Dixieland while attending Harvard
University, first at Boston’s Red Garter with banjoist Joel Schiavone, then at
several of Joel’s ‘Your Father’s Mustache’ clubs in Mass, NJ and NY. |
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Bill Sinclair has an incredible feel for New
Orleans jazz and plays from the heart. He drives the rhythm section. |
The rhythm boys drive the band...
Bob Bequillard |
Art Hovey |
This was Bob Bequillard's 80th birthday!! Bob still pushes the band with a
sturdy, dependable beat.
Art Hovey also has a solid beat, whether on tuba or
string bass. Art has been playing
tuba since he was a teenager. He became a high school physics teacher, but
his love has always been Traditional Jazz. He spends a great deal of
time impressing young musicians with his enthusiasm for the music. Some of his protégées are already playing
professionally - see young Skyler Hagner playing saxophone with the band above,
and with Jordan & Friends.
Cynthia Fabian sang her own version of a traditional African American spiritual, most famously recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
in late 1944, Strange Things Are
Happening Every Day. It was really something romantic to dance
to.
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Cynthia is an amazing vocalist from the Blue Lights
Jug Band, and has been singing off and on with the Galvanized J.B.
for many years, giving new life to old melodies.
You Gotta See Your Mama Every Night or You Can’t See
Your Mama At All, A Good Man is Hard to Find
She put heart and soul into Crazy, a tune
Willie Nelson wrote in 1961, and made famous by Patsy Cline. |
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Driven by Freddy's vigorous cornet, the band continued with a barn-burning Wrought Iron Rag, and closed with a
sizzling Fidgety Feet.
The Galvanized Jazz Band plays stimulating, revitalizing jazz. They played at the Millpond Taverne
in Northford Connecticut for 25 years. Now well into their 41st year, the band plays at various
venues around Connecticut, and on the 3rd Sunday of the month at Aunt Chilada's
in Hampden, CT.
www.galvanizedjazz.com
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| By Marce,
Updated September 2012
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