Ogden After Hours - Hot Club of New Orleans
February 5, 2009
Southern Music
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Throughout the Ogden Museum's Stephen Goldring Hall
The Hot Club of New Orleans excels at generating that warm, swinging drive that Django Reinhardt was famous for and at the same time transcends the idiom by eschewing blind obedience to stylistic conventions; in other words the solos are modern, kids. They play a somewhat laidback yet exuberant groove, typical of New Orleans; yet they are so tight and swinging, their solos so driving, at times they seem almost superhuman. Clarinetist Christopher Kohl is the always affable spokes-model of the group and violinist Matt Rhody's singing is always a special treat.
