For those unaware, THE HOT TODDIES JAZZ BAND are a fun-loving hot jazz & swing band from NYC who have an eclectic mix of styles perfect for dancing, lindy hop, and good times!

The band has also quickly become one of the top bands on the swing scene in NYC, the birthplace of the dance, and perform locally as much as possible, and thus being a relatively unknown group founded in 2018, have still managed to lock in a resounding fan base that grows with each and every live performance.

Led by Grammy-nominated GABE TERRACCIANO (Turtle Island String Quartet, Avalon Jazz Band) and noted composer & producer PATRICK SOLURI (Prohibition Productions), the band features some of the top musicians in the swing & jazz worlds including JUSTIN POINDEXTER (Jazz at Lincoln Center), DAN LEVINSON (Mel Torme, Woody Allen, The Aviator, Boardwalk Empire), RON WILKINS (Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gilespie), plus noted vocalists QUEEN ESTHER (James “Blood” Ulmer), and HANNAH GILL (Postmodern Jukebox, Company XIV), as well as special guest pianist GORDON WEBSTER.

They have also released their eponymous new album, the self-titled The Hot Toddies Band, which contains 11 fan-favorite, fun-loving tracks imbibing the high-and-not-so-dry spirits of the Prohibition Era.

1. Digga Digga Do
2. Love Me or Leave Me
3. I Wan’na Be Like You
4. Kansas City
5. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
6. Kilowatt Stomp
7. Saint Louis Blues
8. Blue Drag
9. When I Get Low I get High
10. Mean To Me
11. I’m In The Mood for Love

On an album that lovingly celebrates the sparkling array of swinging vocal and big band numbers inspired by the legendary singers and composers of the era, such as Duke Ellington, Billy Holiday, Count Basie, and more, it opens on the classic, drum-led, foot tapper Digga Digga Doo (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra) and the low slung, veritably smoldering Billie Holiday cut Love Me or Leave Me and then proceeds to bring us a rather refreshing version of the joyous swing of I Wan’na Be Like You, then comes their rhythmic rendition of Fats Domino’s Kansas City and a delightful version of Nat King Cole’s dulcet Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You.

Up next is the album’s newest entry into the collection, and the only original work on display, the playful Kilowatt Stomp (created by the group’s violinist Gabe Terracciano) and that is in turn backed by the oldest track in the set, William C. Handy’s 1914 hit Saint Louis Blues, and with the album actually having begun its recordings process shortly after the group’s inception in 2019, but was interrupted by the pandemic (and thus resumed in 2022), we next get the melodically sculptured Blue Drag, which is itself backed by an enriched rendition of When I get Low I get High (Ella Fitzgerald), the album closing on Dean Martin’s lush Mean To Me and a transportive I’m In The Mood for Love (Julie London).

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