Hot Club De Ville Analysis

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Hot Club de Ville is a local jazz group located here in Gainesville, who perform at Leonardo's 706 restaurant every Monday. The band members normally consist of Geoff Perry on Violin, Marty Liquori on Guitar, Dave Forbes on Bass, and Eric Abernathy on Guitar. However, for this concert, Violinist Jacob Lawson joined the band as the guest soloist. Hot Club de Ville is known for playing the jazz style “Gypsy Jazz", a style of jazz music that was created by the guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt, and has been doing so at Leonardo’s for several years. The stage featured two large mirrors on both the left and right hand side of the floor, with the musician’s backs facing a large glass window allowing patrons on the outside to see into the restaurant. With the musicians only a …show more content…

The band is known for putting their own spin on the songs that they play, and I noticed this towards the end on of Coquette. For the final minute or so of the song, the tempo sped up and there began to be call and response between the violinist and the base, that ended with a quick solo by Dave Forbes on the base. Next the band played the song “I'll see you in my dreams” the song began with Eric Abernathy playing a simply melody on his guitar, that he would keep repeating for the rest of the song. He would do this for most of the songs throughout the night. Because Gypsy Jazz does not typically feature drums, Eric often played, what he described as a “Brazilian style” of guitar to keep the rhythm. The song concluded with Marty Liquori playing a high pitched solo with the chords high on the neck of his guitar. The band continued with the song “Casa de oro” that translates to House of gold in Spanish. The song began with Jacob playing most of the notes, with the other band members in support. As the song progressed Jacob slowly faded out of the song switching

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