Tiny Crimes Live at Volume Records

About this event

Join us for an evening of 1930's style swing, playing the music of Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Tiny Grimes and many more.

Tiny Crimes evoke the Jazz of the late 1930’s to early 1940s - when Swing was evolving into Bebop and electric guitars were making themselves heard for the first time. Two of the great electric pioneers were Charlie Christian and Tiny Grimes, whose playing helped set the standard for this new instrument.

Tiny Crimes is a project to celebrate the music of these early pioneers and of their peers, such as Benny Goodman and Lester Young. The members are Richard King and Des Mc Hugh on guitars, Graham Lloyd on bass, Bob Batty on Saxophone and Clarinet, and Fran Dowling on drums. They come from the diverse musical worlds of Gypsy Jazz, Chicago Blues, Bossa Nova, Straight Ahead Jazz and world music, with a common belief:

“These tunes aren’t good because they’re Standards; they’re Standards because they’re good”.

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