Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Swing State

More than half a century after the Quintette du Hot Club de France dominated Parisian nightclubs, Bristol’s Swing Noire cite the storied group as a major influence on their own jazz manouche style. The quartet certainly isn’t the first to follow in Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli’s (very big) footsteps, but their acoustic ballads, jazz standards and improvisations are worth noting. Marrying free-spirited gypsy jazz with sizzling hot swing, bandmates David Gusakov, Rob and Jim McCuen, and Jared Volpe lend a speakeasy atmosphere to Chandler Music Hall’s Upper Gallery. “The short of it is that I have the hot-swing bug,” confesses rhythm guitarist Volpe in his website bio. Catch the infectious sound while you can.