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The Doc Scanlon Trio plays hot swing jazz of the 1920's
through the 1940's. Their song list includes the great
standards of Gershwin, Berlin & Porter as well as the jazz of Django
Reinhardt, Fats Waller and Benny Goodman. If the occasion calls for it, they
also will play the western swing of Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Asleep at
the Wheel or the jump blues of Louis Jordan, Bill Haley and Louis Prima.
This is a versatile trio with a big sound, red hot solos and tight three
part harmony vocals. They are well known and respected in their home area
of New York for their versatility, talent, humor and hot licks. They are
equally adept at a club show, a concert setting or a dance.
Doc Scanlon has had a band for more than 25 years which has
traveled up and down the East Coast of the US to great acclaim, as well as
completing tours that have taken him to Russia, and Finland's
prestigious Pori Jazz Festival. In the USA he has strong followings in
Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, DC and in his home area of Albany, New
York.
Doc Scanlon will be playing bass and singing lead vocals on material that
ranges from Fats Waller to early Bing Crosby to Jump Blues classics.
Joining Doc on guitar will be Don Young, a multi-talented guitarist-vocalist who can
play anything from Django style to riffin' rhythm & blues as well as being a versatile
lead singer.
The icing on the cake will be clarinetist Dan Levinson, one of the
acknowledged masters of his instrument. Dan has and continues to tour
worldwide doing his recreations of Benny Goodman, and the influences of
early Jazz from Jelly Roll Morton to Artie Shaw are always apparent. Dan has also been known to pick up the tenor saxophone and fire out some ripping R&B. He has played with everyone from Wynton Marsalis to Mel Torme to Leon Redbone, and his services as a leader and frontman are always in demand.
