JONATHAN STOUT AND HIS CAMPUS FIVE - PART THREE - MAY 17, 2009 - CICADA CLUB

Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five, featuring Hilary Alexander is a septet dedicated to preserving the classic and often overlooked small group swing from the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Founded by two dedicated swing dancers and vintage lifestyle enthusiasts, and using only the best of LAs jazz community, the Campus Five was a way to expose many dancers and listeners alike to some of the more interesting and under appreciated tunes from the swing era, while still being the most danceable band playing swing today.

The Campus Five picks tunes from the books of notable small groups as the Benny Goodman Sextet, Count Basies Kansas City Six/Seven, Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five, as well as the small groups of Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Cootie Williams, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, and Coleman Hawkins, and features vocal numbers from Ella Mae Morse, Anita ODay, Peggy Lee and the young Ella Fitzgerald.

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My dream septet.