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29-Aug-2008
Julien Labro on new CD ‘Night Town’, Detroit - USAby Rob Howard |
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 Ever since the 1930s heyday of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, featuring guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli, combos called Hot Clubs carry on the gypsy jazz sound around the world. One such is the Hot Club of Detroit, whose line up is Evan Perri (guitar), Julien Labro (accordion), Carl Cafagna (sax), Paul Brady (guitar), and Shannon Wade (bass).The Hot Club of Detroit’s new CD is titled ‘Night Town’, and is a follow up to the group's widely acclaimed 2006 debut CD, ‘Hot Club of Detroit’. Julien Labro, from Marseilles, France, links the Detroit quintet to the French musette style from which gypsy jazz partially sprung back in the 1930s, while Cafagna's robust saxophone work introduces bop and post-bop elements to gypsy jazz. Labro is the winner of numerous international accordion competitions, and has performed at numerous jazz venues and festivals in the USA. His performances with The Hot Club of Detroit have drawn rave reviews, such as the Detroit Free Press Music Critic Mark Stryker noting the "jaw dropping virtuosity" of Labro's solos played with "vibrant joy and disciplined musicianship." In 2005, Labro grabbed 1st prizes in the Art Van Damme International Jazz Accordion Competition, the Vivian Stolaruk Intl. Entertainment Award (Detroit, MI), and the 2005 Heineken Jazz Starquest. For further information email: julien@julienlabro.com |