Hot Steamed Jazz Festival 2013 – Galvanized Jazz Band with Jane Campedelli

Galvanized Jazz Band

Galvanized Jazz Band, with Jane Campedelli vocals, Fred Vigorito cornet, Russ Whitman reeds, Craig Grant trombone, Bill Sinclair piano, Art Hovey string bass/tuba, Bob Bequillard drums, no banjo.

Freddy Vigorito

As soon as the drum and cornet did the intro to a Hot Hindustan, we knew we were in the right place. The Galvanized Jazz Band has been playing Traditional Jazz on the Connecticut music scene since Freddy started leading it in 1971.

It was Friday night and not all the fans had arrived yet. Some were from their old haunt, the Mill Pond Tavern, some from Aunt Chilada’s, and even some TGCTJF folks like Bob Johnson from Moodus, who sponsored the band.

Jane Campedelli

Jane Campedelli was back for The Galvanized and many other bands in the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival. She can sweetly croon June Night, scat through Lazy River,

or belt out songs like Hard Hearted Hannah and the rollicking Rose of Washington Square.

The band revved it up with Oriental Strut, Sherman on bent soprano sax with Wilbur & Sidney DeParis’s Yamma Yamma Man. They played a really bluesy Blues for Bob Johnson, named it the Bob Johnson Blues.

Bill Sinclair has an incredible feel for this early music, playing W. C. Handy’s Careless Love. He started Hoagie Carmichael’s 1942 Skylark that featured marvelous Craig Grant on trombone.

Art Hovey and Bob Bequillard are the drivers in the band. Drummer Bob Bequillard held a nice steady beat, with a simmering drum roll on his solo on Rampart St. Parade.