Sunga Rose - vocals & ukulele
Holly Eckert - piano
Mark Bentz - cornet & percussion
Ericka Kendall - upright bass
We are available for your venue or special event: weddings, holiday parties, fund-raisers, festivals, clubs, etc.
For booking please message us here on myspace or email contact@missroserhythm.com
Influences
Annette Hanshaw, Ruth Etting, Django Reinhart, Bix Beiderbecke, Mildred Bailey, Eddie Lang, Joe Venutti, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Connie Boswell, Ethel Waters, Libby Holman, Lee Morse, Gene Austin, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and oh so many more...
Sounds Like
It was the Roaring Twenties. It was the Jazz Age. A time of prohibition and loss of inhibitions. Hemlines rose and necklines plunged. Those who could afford it, indulged in clothing, jewelry, parties, & liquor. Those who couldn’t saw it in the movies read about it in the gossip columns and dreamed of being among the elite. In the 1930’s the romance of the speakeasy gave way to the stark reality of the Great Depression. Though many did not know where they might find their next meal, they still found a way to escape into the movie theatres from time to time and dream of better days.
And the music played on. The Jazz Age had only just begun, and even if you couldn’t always feed your body you could certainly find nourishment for your soul from the music that poured out of every speakeasy, theatre, and dance hall. From one-room flats in Harlem, to smoke-filled blues joints on Chicago’s famous South Side to glamourous clubs in Hollywood young musicians crowded in, vying to jam with the best of them.
Eighty years later, Jazz is a force to be reckoned with. It has morphed and grown and branched off into many directions, but it always swings. We like to play those tunes that got things started. Sometimes the sounds are so removed from contemporary Jazz that they might not even be recognized or acknowledged as having the same roots. They do. And those roots, like the Jazz of today, swing, baby, how they do swing.
Our debut CD Who Walks In is available for sale through our website as well as CD Baby. To purchase from CD Baby, click the button below:
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Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators play songs from the Jazz Age. We like to call it “Vintage Jazz”. The era began around 1920 and continued on up to 1935 when the Big Band sound became all the rage. We stay true to the original spirit of the music while infusing it with our own style. We especially love creating a mood & ambiance that will take the audience back to another time and provide an escape from the “real world”. This is accomplished not only through the music itself, but also through the use of period dress, lighting, and slide shows.
We hope to see you at a show very soon!
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"Who Walks In," the debut album from Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators, captures the sound & feel of 1920’s & 1930’s popular jazz styles with a mix of 11 classics & nearly forgotten songs from the era, including wonderful takes on such generation-crossing standards as “Ain’t She Sweet” & “’Deed I Do”. Singer & ukulele-player Sunga Rose leads a spot-on 4-piece band through a repertoire of pure nostalgia. And yet, this is no museum piece. The Rhythm Percolators quartet gives these songs new life with their deft & bouyant readings, making gems like the sprightly “At the Codfish Ball” sound almost contemporary. In addition, the outstanding title song, “Who Walks In,” has a wonderful Eastern European bounce while the ballad “Shanghai Lil,” exhibiting some of Miss Rose’s best vocals, reveals as much about its era as it does the timelessness of great song craft. As the Deperession era's popular radio hits can be seen as timeless classics, Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators’ excellent new release “Who Walks In” is sure to appeal to music fans looking beyond today’s hottest sounds and should definitely be given a listen to.
Opening night: Tuesday 9th june 2009 - 9pm / 11.30pm
Forget about the gym workout: come dancing!!
(and save on the gym subscription and the dating site subscription too...)
Thank goodness we will be opened on the 9th for the first edition of Swing Mon Amour so you'll have something nice to do on a tuesday night. It's very cheap (in terms of money not quality obviously), and you'll get great acts every week that will make you sweat and get plenty of excercice. I'm talking resident Dj El Nino from Black Cotton Club & Lady Luck, and Gentleman Tim & the Contenders a great 1950's swing R&B Chicago blues band. You'll dance all night, guaranted!
Styles : Blues - Chicago Blues - West coast Blues - 20's 30's - Gypsy swing - Big Band - Swing - R&B - Jump Jive - Rockabilly - Rock&Roll - Western Hillbilly - and many more...
Please check out our new comedic “vampire bankers” music video. The guy who directed this also directed Madonna’s first music vid. We think it’s pretty funny. It’s available as a free mp3 download on http://www.ukejackson.com
Thanks for being our friend! Uke Jackson and the NY Ukulele Ensemble
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