Tiger Dixie Band - Roaring Christmas (2021)

The Tiger Dixie Band accompanies us on the most anticipated night of the year with the festive energy of early jazz and the grace of the New Orleans sound through an art project that captures the essence of the Christmas spirit. Totally inspired by the "Roaring Twenties" and embellished by the participation of vocalist Greta Marcolongo, the album alternates some of the most evocative classics of the traditional Christmas repertoire reworked for the occasion with lesser-known "rare pearls" discovered on ancient engravings and repurposed. Among the sixteen tracks that make up the tracklist there are also original works written by the members of the band, starting with the song that opens the listening "Singin 'by the Christmas Tree".

The Tiger Dixie Band systematically dedicates itself to the recovery of the Jazz of the "roaring years", proposing it with an original and current interpretative approach. The typical atmospheres of New Orleans and Chicago Style, of Charleston and Ragtime, are philologically respected in the timbre and spirit (also due to the use of some original instruments of the time) but the sound is however filtered through the musical experiences more modern than the individual members of the band who, merging on the various levels of execution, from the arrangement to the improvisation, avoid a result of a revivalist character, instead enhancing the desire to make it clear how much this musical genre has not aged more than the Swing or the Bebop .

The album plays Paolo Trettel (trumpet), Stefano Menato (clarinet), Fiorenzo Zeni (tenor saxophone), Luigi Grata (trombone), Andrea Boschetti (banjo, guitars and ukulele), Stefano Caniato (piano), Giorgio Beberi (bass saxophone) ), Daniele Patton (drums). With the extraordinary participation of the vocalist Greta Marcolongo.