Hot Club of Los Angeles - Cinema Swing (2020)

Hot Club of Los Angeles was founded in 2011 as a gathering of local established musicians with backgrounds in country, jazz, folk, blues and world music to perform the repertoire of Belgian guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt (1910-1953). Reinhardt pioneered the hybrid genre now known as gypsy jazz, and popularized it with his Quintette du Hot Club de France beginning in 1930s Paris.

​Hot Club of Los Angeles released Django’s Tiger in 2013. Its second album, Cinema Swing will be released March 6, 2020. Produced and mastered by the band's drummer, Jim Doyle, and mixed by Kevin Jarvis, the new recording features a mix of classic gypsy jazz numbers and original material in that vein composed by group members Carl Byron and Paul Eckman.

The ensemble's popularity has spread from its acclaimed Monday night residency (since 2011) at Culver City's Cinema Bar, to dance nights at upscale venues such as Clifton’s Brookdale Ballroom, as well as municipal and corporate events where the band's up-tempo swing, acoustic shredding and dapper presentation are de rigueur for events requiring distinctive vintage sophistication.

Hot Club of Los Angeles served as the house band for the 2017 and 2018 all-star Artists for Peace and Justice “Songs From The Cinema” benefits, curated by Jackson Browne. At those events, the group backed celebrated artists including Browne, Jeff Bridges, Rufus Wainwright, Gaby Moreno, T-Bone Burnett, Rita Wilson, Erica Canales, Petra Haden, Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Judith Owen, Bill Frisell, Jonathan Wilson, Paul Beaubrun and others.

​Hot Club of Los Angeles is:
Josh Workman (guitar)
Jake Bluenote (guitar/banjo/vocal)
Carl Byron (accordion/piano/vocal)
Paul Eckman (upright bass)
Jim Doyle (drums/vocal)

​The group welcomes Jackson Browne for occasional mini-sets at the Cinema Bar, and also often features gypsy jazz and trad jazz luminaries such as Alex Budman, Pablo Hopenhayn, Leah Zeger, Fabrice Martinez, Nora Germain, Alex Budman, Tommy Davy & Luanne Homzy, Jeff Radaitch, Kale Stiles, Gage Hulsey, Bill Barrett, Antoine Salem, Ethan Emerson, John McDuffie and Michael Saucier as special guests.