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Zzymzy Quartet at Harbor Music Hall
Courtesy of karina campos | Posted on October 25, 2016
Where
Harbor Music Hall
1506 India Street
San Diego , CA
Map
619-450-7926
When
Fri, October 28, 2016
8:00 pm
At Door
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Musicians
About
Harbor Music Hall presents:
Zzymzzy Quartet
The guys from the Zzymzzy Quartet have simple ambitions: they just want to play it like it was when it was unamplified, melodic, swinging, dreamy, full of sly surprise. From the Prohibition through the Second Big War, the glory days of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are being recaptured humbly and with humor in San Diego by four musicians who know it don’t mean a thing without that swing.
The Zzymzzy Quartet takes its name from a hypothetical “last word” in the dictionary: thus, their tagline, “The Last Word in Gypsy Swing.” The “Gypsy” sound is heard in much of the guitar work, heavily influenced by the stylings of French Gypsy jazz legend Django Reinhardt, but the group also pays tribute to the Swing Era with classic standards and idiomatic originals. ...