Please help me find some dark gypsy jazz like this!

domecrusher

went to New Orleans the other week and heard these two street performers playing the slowest creepiest gypsy jazz(from what I was told this is the style this is, but im not entirely sure) ive ever heard and I fell in love. It was a guitarist using a resonating acoustic(it sounds like a banjo so i could be wrong) and a vocalist who had that deep Louis Armstrong type of voice, he also played the trumpet. Please help me find some artists similar. or help me find the correct genre. I have a small clip of them playing. I hope that helps give the idea of what im talking about. Thanks so much in advanced.

Bones

try this???

domecrusher

mmmm yeah. This is more like it.

tbleen

This jam with the Rosenbergs on this tune has quite a cool, dark mood

Bones

If by 'dark' you mean minor keys there's tons...

Not really slow:



Most GJ tends to be a bit faster even the ballads....

Michael S Harrington

Buco

I always thought of this version of Indifference by Les Doigts de l'Homme to be very moody


Of course add to that their version of St James Infirmary which is a dark theme to begin with

lostjohn

Perhaps a different kind of dark, but check out a player named Brandon Cambell

lostjohn

Make that Campbell

Jim Kaznosky

I heard the first clip and immediately thought "the blues."

Buco

Actually now when Jim said that, light went on that there are a lot of Time Waits songs that sound like the first clip: Gun Street Girl, Blow Wind Blow, Chocolate Jesus...