Gillygaloo is our favorite "family-music"
band. Their new album is fun for kids of all ages…
including us!'
– Bob Guida and Pat Conte, The
Otis Brothers
For more than thirty years, The Otis Brothers
have been the Big Apple's preeminent interpreters of pre-blues,
early blues and gospel music from the African American tradition.
Their recent critically-acclaimed album, The Return of the
Otis Brothers: Let's Go to Huntin', showcases Bob and Pat's
estimable skills as multi-instrumentalists and singers.
The CD is unbelievable! The label "kids'
music" is sort of irrelevant: the textures, the sounds of
the instruments, and the swing of the tunes just kicks!
– Jonathan Feig, jazz violinist/
educator/ dad, Aarhus, Denmark
Great music, great musicianship... and
it's fun too!
– Louis Giampetruzzi, Kate & Lou
The "First Couple" of NYC's
folk scene, Kate and Lou Giampetruzzi are highly-acclaimed
musicians, singer/songwriters and recording artists. Lou
is the author of Contemporary Accordion (1981), a
pioneering tutor for the piano accordion, covering a wide
range of styles from blues and English "trad" to
norteno and zydeco.
We love the CD, although we're occasionally
a little tired of it since it's the only music our 18-month
old son Jacob will listen to!!! (Sometimes we override
his wishes and listen to something else.) He dances to almost
every track. If we go to the stereo cabinet, he immediately
demands "soo-shah!"– his word for music,
which means "Little Green Thing" although we generally
just refer to the CD as "Gillygaloo."
So, congratulations to all of you. Really, your CD is a
triumph. The lyrics are clever with witty and wonderful
music to back them up, or maybe it's vice versa. The kids
are great, too. Inspired actors, all of them.
– Bill Weinstein, Brooklyn, NY
Exceptional music! Adorable lyrics!
It's great traveling music. Our son snaps his fingers and
claps his hands until we reach our destination. We would
recommend it to anyone with or without children... since we
listen to it ourselves. It's just FUN! Can't wait for
the next CD!
– Lisa and David Ablon
I've been listening to your CD this morning with our son Max.
Nice music, nice lyrics and good musicians. My wife and I
have been enjoying your music as well as our little Max.
(You've really touched his spirit and soul!) As it's
really difficult to find this kind of music here in Spain, it's a
great pleasure for us to listen to those old instruments in
good hands. Congratulations!
– Oscar Font Cañameras ,
The Fu-Manchu Jazz Servants
The Fu-Manchu Jazz Servants is a pre-swing
traditional jazz ensemble based in Barcelona
(Catalonia, Spain). It was formed in 2002 under the direction of master trombonist
Oscar Font. A "tribute band" in the style of Flecther
Henderson and his orchestra, the Fu-Manchu Jazz Servants
strive to recreate the sound and excitement of the "Jazz
Age" in the Roaring Twenties, just before the advent of "Big Band
Swing." (Note: The Fu-Manchu Jazz Servants website is
in Catalan and Spanish.)
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