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Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
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Sounds Like: Jean Baptiste (Django) Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène, Andreas Oberg Guitarist, Les Paul, Rosenberg Trio
Genre: Jazz
The award winning Red Rock Hot Club is recognized as one of the top American based
Gypsy Jazz Ensembles. Founded in 1999 and led by the swinging guitar stylings Rich D’aigle,
the group specializes in the music of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France.
With the added help of Pat Terry’s guitar and Dave Bowen on Bass, the core of this Jazz group
skillfully delivers the sound of Paris ala 1930’s and 40’s. Masters of Swing Jazz they’re not afraid
to bring you the added tastes of Bourbon Street in New Orleans, maybe a trip to San Antonio for a taste of Western Swing!
The Red Rock Hot Club Live with Special Guests Vol. 1 & 2 is thier 4th (and 5th) release, and proves to be their most exciting yet,
as it’s packed with over TWO hours of Smoking Hot Vintage Jazz Swing, and is filled with many surprises for Gypsy Jazz fans old and new!
Most noticeable is the addition of D’aigle’s vocals; simply put, Rich’s voice is a smoky, throaty growl that evokes the tones of Louis Armstrong,
Fats Waller and Tom Waits, adding a completely new dimension to his group. Somewhere between studying music, playing live and teaching, Rich
has found the time to become an accomplished luthier, and has started D’aigle Handcrafted Instruments, and builds replicas of the Selmer/Maccaferri
style guitars made famous by Django Reinhardt .
The featured special guest, is Los Angeles based guitarist extraordinaire, Mike Miller, from such groups as Chick Corea’s Electric Band, The Yellow
Jackets, Bette Midler, Queen Latifah and The Grandmothers of Invention. Mike is a “guitarist’s guitarist”, his ability to go from incredible Jazz Fusion
style, to Swing Guitar styles is amazing, and is captured beautifully on this new Live Red Rock Hot Club CD set.
The new recordings also includes special guests Scott Harris on Clarinet, whose credits include the Utah Symphony Orchestra, Burbank Symphony
Orchestra, He has performed with numerous popular and Jazz artists including: Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis,
Ray Charles as well as artists such as Itzhak Perlman and Barbra Streisand. Dan Salini on Violin, A child
prodigy, Dan was born into the Legendary “Salini Strings” classical ensemble of suburban Minneapolis. When
not in his shop building violins, Dan is a veteran swing player and multi instrumentalist who can comfortably
switch to Lap Steel, Pedal Steel and any other guitar as well.
“What the hell are these guys doing in Utah?”
Bill Frost - Salt Lake City Weekly
"Gypsy Daydream"this album of Gypsy Jazz is the real deal.
Michael Dregni , Django Rienhardt Biographer - Vintage Guitar Magazine
“Red Rock Hot Club "Gypsy Daydream" Yes ANOTHER Hot Club, and I liked them! Founded by Rich D'aigle in 1999, the group released Gypsy Daydream in the fall of 2008. Pat Terry, is the rhythm guitarist, and Scott Terry keeps the authentic beat on bass. There are two noteworthy originals by D'aigle, plus, his rendition of 'When You're Smiling " will make you smile. The playing is relaxed, swinging and really in the mode of a 30's Paris Hot Club. They have achieved a balance between the authentic QHC's of Django and their own tastes and influences. You can hear this in the D’aigle original, "Gypsy Daydream" with a Latin beat and also in "Royal and Conti.” I would say this set of tunes is always pleasing, never straining and does not fail to swing even though played with a relaxed feeling. If you love this music, you never tire of discovering new groups in the genre. I think you will agree that the The Red Rock hot Club fulfills these requirements.”
Frank Forte - Just Jazz Guitar
"Gypsy Daydream"this album of Gypsy Jazz is the real deal. The quintet is an intriguing blend of Django Reinhardt’s early Hot Club Jazz with his war-era swing music, inspired respectively by the American Jazz of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman. Led by Rich D’aigle the band blends the the violin of Dan Salini playing Stephane Grappelli’s role with the Clarinet of John Flanders taking Hubert Rostaing’s place. The group is filled out by guitarist Pat Terry and Bassman Scott Terry. With both violin and clarinet melding with the strings, the band boasts a full rich, full sound. The setlist here is pretty true to the Django Songbook, with the addition of a couple of D’aigle originals, and more standards and classics. But it’s the style with which they swing their music that lifts the Red Rock Hot Club above the ordinary. On cuts like Eddie Durham’s “Topsy”, The band rides the melody with abandon, charging into inspired improvisations, and trading eights that are truly Hot
Michael Dregni - Vintage Guitar Magazine
