Newport Jazz 2011: Mostly Other People Do The Killing, Live In Concert
Kevin Shea on drums as Mostly Other People Do The Killing performs on the Quad Stage during the Newport Jazz Festival.
Kevin Shea on drums as Mostly Other People Do The Killing performs on the Quad Stage during the Newport Jazz Festival.
Set List
- Pen Argyl
- St. Mary's Proctor
- My Delightful Muse
- Blueball
- Two Boats Jack
- Factoryville
- Roundbottom Squaretop
- Evans City
- All The Things You Are
- A Night In Tunisia
The quartet Mostly Other People Do The Killing has a deep respect for jazz traditions — and a peculiar way of demonstrating it. The band likes to take song forms and standards, cleave them into bits with exceptional virtuosity (and comic timing), and reconstitute them with Frankenstein-like references to any and every era of jazz. It's presented all in good fun, and with tons of positive energy, as the first act on the Quad Stage.
Personnel: Peter Evans, trumpet; Jon Irabagon, saxophones; Moppa Elliott, bass; Kevin Shea, drums.
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