The Viper Club
STUFF SMITH & JONAH JONES INSPIRED ONYX CLUB JAZZ
The Viper Club
With a vast range of interests and a collective résumé which reads as a who’s who of current early jazz, The Viper Club delve into the vault of the infamous Onyx Club. The most compelling, hard-swinging recordings from 30’s New York by the fabulous ensemble led by Stuff Smith, one of the most distinctive voices in jazz and preeminent jazz violinists in history…
JEROME ETCHEBERRY – Trumpet
TCHA LIMBERGER – Violin
DAVE KELBIE – Guitar
SÉBASTIEN GIRARDOT – Double Bass
A very European group of surely four of the most recognisable international classic jazz musicians in recent years
DEBUT ALBUM
Tain’t no use – 2023
What happens when you assemble four of Europe’s foremost jazz musicians playing 17 tunes from an era when popular music was “hot”? The answer is The Viper Club – a quartet who revisit the long-overlooked partnership of African American musicians Stuff Smith and Jonah Jones (the violinist and trumpeter whose joyous, inventive music making as the Onyx Club opened up the sound of swing in the mid-to-late 1930s).
Garth Cartwright
the music speaks to anyone with a pulse..
THE TIMES UK
as good as it gets when it comes to music that swings
BEBOP SPOKEN HERE UK
incendiary
GAZETTE BLEUE D’ACTION JAZZ FR
a collective résumé which reads just like a who’s who of early jazz
JUST JAZZ UK
This is the proverbial album to die for
JAZZ DA GAMA C
reaches an unexpected intensity for a current recording
JAZZ HOT FR
Dangerously thrilling music
JAZZ LIVES US
Beyond the instrumental (and vocal) prowess, the result is an album full of freshness, cheerfulness and heart-warming nostalgia
LE BLOG DE PHIIPPE VINCENT FR
undoubtedly one of the albums of the year
FRANCIS COUVREUX FR
a perfect success that is definitely not to be missed!
LE BULLETIN DU HCF FR
I imagine that Stuff Smith would have loved to sit in with this group
SYNCOPATED TIMES US
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