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The Brian Setzer Orchestra: 15th Anniversary Christmas Rocks! Tour at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

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The Brian Setzer Orchestra with the Lara Hope and the Ark-tones NYCB Theatre at Westbury 15th Anniversary Christmas Rocks! Tour Westbury, NY November 27, 2018 Now in its 15th year, Brian Setzer's annual holiday tour has become a legendary extravaganza. The rockabilly guitarslinger loves Christmas and really gets into the spirit. Setzer has brought his holiday-themed spectacular along with his big band to the New York area and Westbury, NY's NYCB Theatre every year ...

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The Brian Setzer Orchestra 2017 Christmas Rocks! Tour at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

Read "The Brian Setzer Orchestra 2017 Christmas Rocks! Tour at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante


The Brian Setzer Orchestra 2017 Christmas Rocks! Tour with the Texas Gentlemen NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY November 22, 2017 Brian Setzer's holiday tour has become an annual extravaganza. The man really gets into the Christmas spirit. The rockabilly and Americana guitarslinger has brought his holiday-themed spectacular along with his big band to Westbury, NY's NYCB Theatre every year for over a decade. As in the past, his performance was a very high energy ...

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Brian Setzer: The Dirty Boogie

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The swing revival is today’s up-to-the-minute news, but has been gaining momentum for quite some time. Brian Setzer formed his big band in 1992 as an alternative choice for folks who have the time and energy to fill their leisure hours with more than just one activity. He defines a “Kustom Lifestyle" as pertaining to one who consistently seeks to explore the roads less-traveled, the things most people overlook, the unsung heroes of the world. Combining his rock and roll ...

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Brian Setzer: Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!

Brian Setzer: Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!

Source: JamBase

BRIAN SETZER GIVES BLUEGRASS A ROCKABILLY SPIN ON NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 19 With its forays into bluegrass and traditional jazz, Brian Setzer's new album Setzer Goes Instru-MENTAL! (out April 19 on Surfdog Records) has the guitar legend testing new waters and putting his signature Stray Cat stamp on a few instrumental favorites. Setzer wrote six originals and revitalizes five jazz-bluegrass classics—"Blue Moon of Kentucky," “Earl's Breakdown," “Cherokee," “Be-Bop-A-Lula," and “Lonesome Road." Recording each gave Setzer the chance to revisit ...

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Brian Setzer Orchestra - Christmas Comes Alive (2010)

Brian Setzer Orchestra - Christmas Comes Alive (2010)

Source: Something Else!

By Nick DeRiso Brian Setzer, an unjustly unheralded guitarist, has this knack for connecting with the redux zeitgeist. In the 1980s, it was rockabilly. In the last decade, big-band jump blues. More recently, Setzer has used that template for a series of popular holiday-themed albums. For me, though, these studio efforts have been more admirable than entirely convincing. Not so here, as the Setzer group, indeed, comes alive on a 15-song disc recorded last year during a stop in Knoxville, ...

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Brian Setzer Recruits Visionary Arranger Frank Comstock

Brian Setzer Recruits Visionary Arranger Frank Comstock

Source: Michael Ricci

What does a modern-day big band leader do when they want to re-create the sounds of classic 1950s film noir music? For Brian Setzer, the answer was simply to go to the source, the legendary Frank Comstock, who wrote arrangements for Benny Carter, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, and Judy Garland, penned the theme songs for Rocky & Bullwinkle, Adam 12, and Dragnet, and recorded the cult classic “Music From Outer Space." Comstock wrote the horn charts for nine of the ...

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Brian Setzer Collects His Classics for a Cool Yule

Brian Setzer Collects His Classics for a Cool Yule

Source: Michael Ricci

Brian Setzer is “the new king of jingle bell rock" (Billboard) and on October 13, Surfdog will re-release the perfect Setzer treat for all good boys and girls: 'Christmas Rocks! The Best of Collection' and the new 'Ultimate Christmas Collection'. 'Christmas Rocks!' brings together the best songs from his two Christmas albums, 'Dig That Crazy Christmas' and 'Boogie Woogie Christmas'- favorites like “Jingle Bells, “ “You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch, “ “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It ...

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