Limehouse Blues – 2004
Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing Trio
This rapid performance defines the word “blazing”
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In his career, violinist and guitarist Mark O’Connor has played jazz, bluegrass, blues, classical, vintage country, folk music, and Americana with equal skill and brilliance.
O’Connor would be better known in the jazz world if he had concentrated exclusively on jazz but along the way he has worked with David Grisman and Stephane Grappelli (with whom he toured when he was 17), and led his Hot Swing Trio, returning to jazz from his other projects every once in awhile.
From 2004, O’Connor teams up with guitarist Frank Vignola and bassist Jon Burr for an impossibly fast yet somehow relaxed version of “Limehouse Blues.”
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