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Hot Club Of Detroit at World Cafe Live

Courtesy of World Cafe Live | Posted on January 5, 2011

Where

World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Map
215-222-1400

When

Tue, January 11, 2011
8:00PM EST

At Door

$16.00

Musicians

Hot Club Of Detroit
band / ensemble / orchestra

About

The family tree that traces its roots to the Quintette du Hot Club de France has sprouted countless branches across the globe in the seventy years since Django Reinhardt first jammed with Stephane Grappelli. It seems like a new city lays claim to its own Hot Club on a virtually daily basis, but the Hot Club of Detroit is undoubtedly the apple that has fallen farthest from that tree.

The blistering fretwork on the opening track of the group's third CD, It's About That Time, pays explicit homage to one of their six-string heroes - just not the one you might think. "On the Steps" is based on the chord changes of Pat Martino's "On the Stairs" (with a brief borrowing from John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" to complete the pun), and states at the outset what fans of these gypsy jazz revisionists have long known - that Django Reinhardt is far from the beginning and end of the Hot Club of Detroit's vocabulary of influences....

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