Catalogue: JASMCD 2552
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/09/1999
Bar Code: 604988 25522 5
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Jan SAVITT & His Orch.Shuffle In Style
Although he may not be remembered as a major figure of the American big band
era, Jan Savitt helped popularise a style of music known as 'shuffle rhythm'
which was later utilised by performers such as Lionel Hampton, Louis Jordan,
Louis Prima and Fats Domino, and can still be heard in the music of recent
years. The son of a percussionist in Czar Nicholas II's Imperial Regiment Band,
Savitt was born on 4th September, 1913, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His family
migrated to America when he was eighteen months old, settling in Pittsburgh.
Although he wanted to pursue a career in classical music - he had studied violin
from the age of eight - Savitt accepted an offer to become musical director of a
local radio station where he organised the Top Hatters and soon began to feature
his 'shuffle rhythm', a creation of arranger Johnny Watson.
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