Sisters Jazz

Modernizing the harmony vocal pop of '30s and '40s groups like the Andrews Sisters, London's Puppini Sisters took the name of Marcella Puppini, who founded the act after being inspired by the music in the film The Triplets of Belleville. Puppini, a native of Bologna, Italy, moved to London in 1990 to study fashion and quickly became immersed in the city's music scene. Though she had a career at Vivienne Westwood's design studio, she left to focus on music, and in 2003 earned a music degree at Trinity College of Music. Jazz was her passion, and Puppini spent time as the musical director and orchestra conductor for the Whoopee Club, as well as leading her own quartet.

It’s that time of the year to make a list and check it twice to make sure you’ve added the brand new The Puppini Sisters Christmas EP: Dear Santa, I Can Explain… Featuring four never-before-released original Christmas songs that are bound to become classics played every year from now on! This fantastic quartet of songs are the perfect addition to Christmas with The Puppini Sisters, their all-time best-selling festive album, and to the classic single Jingle Bells, which Universal Music are re-releasing as a remastered track to coincide with Christmas 2021! Christmas At Home is a limited edition live album that the Puppini Sisters put out in December 2020. This was only available through their website and was made when ordered.

The Puppini Sisters' fifth studio album, The High Life, is the trio's first with Emma Smith joining original members Marcella Puppini and Kate Mullins. Aside from new membership, the vocal group stays the course, offering more of their close-knit, three-part harmonies on versions of big-band classics, a couple of original songs, and swing era-inspired rearrangements of more contemporary hits. The trio holds a few surprises in its selections of the latter, such as a medley of the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and Sia's "Chandelier," and a fluid cover of Missy Elliott's "Work It." Their take on "Rapper's Delight" works especially well, riding the original's natural swing.

Organissimo - Waiting For The Boogaloo Sisters… (2003) {Big O Records 2403 rec 2002}
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Jazz / Jazz Funk / Contemporary Jazz / Soul Jazz / Organ Hammond B-3

The mid-Michigan based trio Organissimo is not your garden variety, grandfather's organ combo. Yes, they pay allegiance to Jimmy Smith and the forefathers of the B-3, but these musicians, particularly guitarist Joe Gloss and organist Jim Alfredson, are younger and have the audience of their generation in mind. Easy comparisons to Medeski, Martin & Wood, Soulive, and the Brothers Groove can be made. The difference maker is veteran drummer Randy Marsh, who has played his share of bop, soul-jazz, rock, funk, and commercial music, not to mention being a fan of Frank Zappa.