Kansas Smitty's House Band
Kansas Smitty's House Band
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Formed of eight jazz obsessed twenty-somethings and based out of their own Broadway Market bar Kansas Smitty’s House Band have been relentlessly pursuing a sound of their own while creating a genre-blind audience for their music. The House Band is inspired by swing, blues, New Orleans funk and by the sounds of their native London scene.
The Kansas Smitty’s House Band is well recognised as one of the driving forces in the London jazz scene. Their reputation, built on incendiary live shows, was cemented by the release of their critically-acclaimed full-length debut album, back-to-back sold-out main shows at Ronnie Scott’s and the opening of their own bar in East London.
Both bar and band have received praise across the jazz and mainstream press, with extensive coverage from The Evening Standard, and reviews in the Sunday Times and Telegraph. The Band's debut record was named as one of the top jazz albums of 2015 by the Telegraph. The Sunday Times summed up bar and band up nicely, saying ‘Conservatories or cocktails? If jazz is to survive it will need more bands (like this one)’.
What does it sound like? The House Band don't like to be boxed in. As their debut album exemplifies, they make wide use of the sour mash of styles that has allowed them to cross the divides between generations and dispositions. Moving through sounds of swing, blues, R&B, New Orleans second line and gospel, they relentlessly pursue a sound of their own, seeking out and creating a genre-blind audience for their music.
"Sometimes you worry that jazz is going to fall victim to a lethal, self-administered dose of solemnity. There is no danger of any such fate befalling Kansas Smitty’s House Band…the octet’s musicianship [is] joyful and exuberant as well as precise.” - Clive Davis, The Sunday Times
Venue
The Biscuit Factory, 4-6 Anderson Pl, EH6 5NP Edinburgh
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Kansas Smitty's House Band
From GBP 10.00