Sunday, April 29, 2018

Eric Seddon's Hot Club: Bootlegs from the Bop Stop CD now available for order in the USA!

We're happy to announce the release of our new CD--Eric Seddon's Hot Club: Bootlegs from the Bop Stop! The album features four traditionals spiritual and six originals by me, including my tribute to the late Acker Bilk, 'Goodbye, Bowler Hat.'

This disc documents the band's 2017 Historical Jazz Clarinet Concert Series at one of Cleveland's most important jazz clubs. The Bop Stop is renowned for its stellar sound and discerning jazz audiences. We were grateful to play a six concert 'Trad Jazz Invasion' last Fall, and some of the bootlegs that came out of it (from the acoustic perspective of the audience rather than multi-tracked and mixed) were so energetic and typical of our live shows we wanted to release them as an album. On a personal note, I wanted my first album to represent reality--each tune a single take, capturing real sound, including any rawness or roughness to the playing. This isn't airbrushed, but the real thing--natural music. I hope you like it as much as we enjoyed making it. 

You can order your copy of the album from my website--click here and scroll down to the album, where you'll find the information. Note: we only ship within the USA.