JELLY ROLL! Live Band & Social Dance - Swing and Lindy August 17, 2005

Jump, jive and swing your heart away this Wednesday at Steppin' Out. Now's your chance to get a great intro lesson to Lindy and have a blast at the dance afterwards! Don't miss this band, you'll love it!

Join Megan and Trevor for some of the best Lindy lessons available in the country. Intermediate at 7pm, Beginners at 8pm. Then dance, dance, dance from 9pm to Midnight! $12 per class drop in ($15 drop in with the band), includes the dance. $10 dance only.

Born out of the Swing revival of the early 90?s, Jellyroll has, in the ensuing years, forged a sound that is at once assured and fine-tuned with freshly conceived arrangements, yet firmly steeped in the traditional form. From the beginning the band has embraced a danceable, stylish sound, which they continue to expand upon while remaining faithful to the music?s core elements.

Belinda Blair, the charismatic, smokey-voiced lead vocalist, blends impeccable phrasing with fiery blues overtones to achieve a sound that?s as warm and traditional as a Sunday afternoon in the park, but at the same time, something altogether new and distinct. Miss Blair is a savvy performer, having led numerous bands through sultry venues of Paris, London, Zurich, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She possesses a sound, either live or recorded, that is distinctly her own, and lingers long after the needle lifts or stage goes dark.

The repertoire covers all the jazz, swing and blues classics of the day and more. From the classic standards once sung by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Louis Jordan, to the Brazilian and Latin-jazz classics of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrid Gilberto. And still there?s more from the songbooks of Big Mama Thorton, Etta James and other Jump-Blues greats. And if that is not what you want to rattle your bones by, Jellyroll has arrangements for R&B classics by Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and James Brown ready at your choosing.