Mark Oconnor : Hot Swing CD

Track listing "Swingin' on the 'Ville" (O'Connor) – 5:11 "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt) – 5:31 "Sweet Suzanne" (O'Connor) – 6:36 "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:48 "Minor Swing" (Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt) – 6:25 "In the Cluster Blues" (O'Connor) – 8:24 "Lament" (Jon Burr) – 5:12 "Pickles on the Elbow" (O'Connor) – 7:54 Hot Swing is a live swing jazz album by Mark O'Connor, Frank Vignola and Jon Burr. The album is a sort of dedication to Stéphane Grappelli, one of O'Connor's mentors and influences (Grappelli began to teach him when O'Connor was seventeen). The album draws upon the works of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli (and the Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, and Billy Strayhorn standard, "Satin Doll") in addition to original works by O'Connor and Burr.