Hot Club Sunday with Connie Evingson
One of the Twin Cities’ favorite vocalists, Connie can swing the standards with the best of them. And she can hold her own with a Beatles book. And she sounds great with a Peggy Lee or Dave Frishberg-heavy songbook. She has displayed each of these ideas in her recordings over the past few years. Connie owes her predilection for exploring diverse musical roots to the early influence of her father’s jazz record collection and the musical icons of her own generation.
It seems strange that Minnesota native Evingson would have such a strong predilection towards “hot club” music, gypsy jazz from the Django Reinhardt school of guitar playing that was popular in 1930s Paris. One listen to either of her hot club projects, “Gypsy In My Soul” or “Stockholm Sweetnin” will make you a believer. Connie’s lush, dark-hued voice is a perfect complement to the guitar and violin accompaniment of the Twin Cities Hot Club, her calm delivery a contrast to the sometimes frenetic fretwork behind her.
She has “her own delicious sense of swing, silken phrasing and sense of adventure” - City Pages
