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During the past week, Bobby Marlette and I were out in Atlanta visiting my friend Jamie Chambers. Jamie was kind enough to treat us to lunch at his favorite restaurant, a little hole in the wall Mediterranean place that specialized in mostly Greek style food. While waiting to get our meal, I happened to look up on the wall over the kitchen window - there were about 9 flags hung as banners and each one had a different translation of the word "peace" on it.
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| This is the best I could do to get a picture of the flags - camera didn't work too well in the restaurant. |
This elicited a conversation about so many languages, but really only one message. It was at that point that Bobby and I looked at each other and in unison said, "That's this week's theme!" Yes, it really did happen like that. When we returned to the Meridian, Bobby and I went into the deep stacks and started looking for Swing music around the world.
Many times while I’ve been on the microphone here at the Meridian Nightclub, I have often remarked how much American Jazz and Swing has influenced the world at large. Time to put my money where my mouth is and visit around the world where ever American style blues jazz lounge rockabilly or swing is being played...
Here is the playlist for this week's program:
- In The Mood – Puppini Sisters [UK]
- London Rhythm – The Jive Aces [UK]
- How High The Moon – Imelda May [IRELAND]
- It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) - The Rosenberg Trio [FRANCE]
- Frauen reig’n die Weldt – Women Rule the World – Roger Cicero [GERMANY]
- They All Laughed - Gunhilde Carling and Her Swing Band [SWEDEN]
- He Ain’t Got Rhythm - Jennie Löbel and Her Swing Kings [SWEDEN]
- Zip Zap Zoe – Toini and the Tomcats [NORWAY]
- Høk and Swing – Normaal [NETHERLANDS]
- Cement Shoes Optional - Good Fellas with special guest Ray Gelato [ITALY]
- I Got A New Baby - The Speakeasies Swing Band! [GREECE]
- I Van Enkulu - Cool Crooners of Bulawayo [ZIMBABWE]
- Mari Niça Swing - Eric Triton [MAURITIUS]
- Johnny Jingo - Linda and Her Big King Jive Daddies [JAPAN]
For the "It's Martini Time" segment tonight, I wanted an international flavored drink. So I went to the one place I knew I could get a drink originally from the only place in America that’s more a part of Europe than the USA – it made perfect sense to travel to the Evergreen Kingdom for a European drink from New Orleans. Thanks to Jeffery Morganthaller from Clyde Commons Bar in Portlandia for his offering of the international Sazerac!Well that about wraps it up - See you next week on The Swing Shift Radio Show!
Tommy Cage
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