Remarkable experience of musical research, Alma
Swing follows a typical european tradition, which was (between the Thirties and the Forties, as still today) hot jazz. This genre was contaminated by the manouche culture of the North Europe gypsies, as well as by the parisian popular fashion and the afro-american swing craze. Apart from the US events, Alma Swing holds in the aesthetic bases of a string jazz with direct reference to Django
Reinhardt's guitar style and Stéphane
Grappelli's finesse. Those were certainly among the main heroes of french jazz. Thanks to a variety of program and show proposals, Alma Swing opens
to the current time the most peculiar contents of this music, from
the
repertory and the executive procedures, carried out by means of
the typical set of instruments and the melting pot of jazz and gypsy
idioms. According to
a rétro orchestra silhouette and to an acoustic line up, where the typical manouche guitars and the fiddle are protagonists, Alma
Swing
plays with personality the suggestions of an age
impressed in the vinyl and in the grammophons voices,
remarking the contemporary wide success
of music.
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