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Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio Aug. 6 - The Galaxy Barn - 4:00-5:00pm
Aug. 7 - Workshop Barn - 3:30-4:30pm
[Seattle, WA]
Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio performs music that swings. Nat "King" Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. It is music of many decades and no decade in particular, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful whole. At the core of this group's sound are the band's sometimes sweet, sometimes rough-hewn three-part harmony vocals and a piano-ukulele-bass-and-drums rhythm section that swings in a variety of textures.
Their debut recording as a group, "Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio", was released in 2006 and features 10 trio tracks and 2 quartet tracks. Says Casey: "My other projects were like oil paintings, constantly being tweaked and refined. The Blue 4 Trio CD is my watercolor, I put the paint on and what you get is what you get." The result is soft, loud, happy, sad, raw, mellow, with an honest mistake or 2 thrown in for good measure. It is a real band playing real music. Their followup CD, "Three Cool Cats", was released in 2008. From Casey's opening clarion call tribute to the Cats and the Fiddle on "Gangbusters" to the final fade of Mike's take on "Daydream", the boys have outdone themselves on this one. A cavalcade of stars join the boys to spice up the proceedings. The result is even more swinging then the first CD, and the boys are mighty proud of it.
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