"too good to be true"
Year: 2005
Label: Megalith
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Ska Jazz
"elephant riddim"Year: 2016
Country: Russia
City: Moscow
Label: Magnetic Loft
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Ska Jazz
In 2001, the famous Russian ska-punk band Spitfire started a
spin-off project called St. Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review in collaboration
with members of the St. Petersburg-based, afro-Caribbean band
Markscheider Kunst. The initial idea was to create a program comprised
mostly of jazz standards such as Sidewinder, Corcovado, Four and
original ska tunes (St. Thomas, Man in the Street) to perform at the
Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF) in April '01. .. The
line-up of this band included the baritone-sax and percussion players of
Markscheider Kunst as well as all members of Spitfire. The show
attracted great interest and the band continued to play live gigs on the
Russian club scene. SPb Ska-Jazz Review’s debut album was recorded in
March '02 at Dobrolet studio in St. Petersburg and was released in
Russia in the spring of 2002 on the small independent label Zvezda
Records. .. Soon after the release of the first album, American vocalist
Jennifer Davis joined the line-up, and the band went to work on its
second album, Too Good To Be True, recorded in April 2004. This album
features mostly original material and was released in Russia on the
Shnur’OK label and in Europe and the United States on Megalith Records.
The first SPb Ska-Jazz Review album was re-released on the well-known
German ska label, Grover Records, in January 2005 and was supported by
an extensive German and Swiss tour. The band also recorded a live
concert CD/DVD entitled “Live at Red Club” in December 2006 and is
currently working on material for a forthcoming studio album. .. SPb
Ska-Jazz Review is a band that crosses borders both musically and
physically fusing the dynamic contrasts of sweet harmonies and
hard-driving polyrhythms, improvisation and tight orchestra playing,
East and West, and machismo and feminine wiles to create fiercely
energetic and inspiring music transcending the boundaries dictated by
genre. This band swings as hard as it skanks
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