The 10-piece (that’s a five-piece horn section, mister!) Imperial Swing Orchestra will make your dancing feet giddy and fingers start to poppin’! This is no mere retrofitted rockabilly or ironic posture of a fashion statement. The Imperial Swing Orchestra has a reverence for rollicking big band-era dance floor fillers, sultry torch intimacies and smoldering pre-rock ‘n’ roll American music — and the chops to pull it all off handily! — that doesn’t come down the road too often. The perfect combination of style and substance.
This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 1999.