Swingadelic is a
jazz/
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
ensemble founded in 1998 in
Hoboken, New Jersey by bassist Dave Post.
Alto/tenor sax player
Buddy Terry joined the group in 2000 and remained in the band until having a stroke in December 2010 when his duties were taken over by multi-reed player Audrey Welber. Other notables that have performed with Swingadelic are
Eddie Gladden,
Ronnie Cuber, Virgil Jones,
Julio Fernandez, Bill Easley and
Michael Hashim.
Discography
*''Boogie Boo!'' (MediaMix, 1999)
*''Organ-ized!'' (MediaMix, 2002)
*''Big Band Blues'' (MediaMix, 2005)
*''Another Monday Night'' (MediaMix, 2007)
*''The Other Duke: Tribute To
Duke Pearson
Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. (August 17, 1932 – August 4, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer. ''Allmusic'' describes him as having a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record produ ...
'' (ZOHO Music, 2011)
*''Toussaintville'' (ZOHO Music, 2013) with
Queen Esther
*''Mercerville'' (ZOHO Music, 2017)
*''Bluesville'' (ZOHO Music, 2020)
References
*Tom Dwyer
Swingadelic at Maxwell's All About Jazz 2006
Further reading
*Zan Stewart, "Swingadelic swings at Maxwell's in Hoboken" ''
nj.com'' (30 December 2009)
*"Swingadelic - The Other Duke: Tribute to Duke Pearson" ''ejazznews'' (23 June 2011)
*"The Jazz Scene: Flappers and Funk Bands" ''The Wall Street Journal'' (22 June 2013)
American jazz ensembles
Musical groups from New Jersey
Musical groups established in 1998
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