The Hot Sardines at Scottsdale Center for the Arts

7:30 p.m. Tickets: $29, $39, $49. The Hot Sardines reinvent hot jazz for the 21st century with glamour, grit and passion! Bandleader and pianist Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and lead singer Miz Elizabeth combine with the Sardine ensemble of powerhouse musicians – and their very own tap dancer – to play hot jazz as it was in the era when live music was king. The outfit encompasses a blustery brass lineup, a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and Miz Elizabeth’s vocalizing in both English and French, with a voice that harkens back to another era yet feels refreshingly modern. The brainchild of Bibs and Miz Elizabeth, the Sardine sound fuses musical influences from New York, Paris and New Orleans that were nurtured from the Prohibition era through the Great Depression, World War II and beyond....

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7:30 p.m. Tickets: $29, $39, $49. The Hot Sardines reinvent hot jazz for the 21st century with glamour, grit and passion! Bandleader and pianist Evan “Bibs” Palazzo and lead singer Miz Elizabeth combine with the Sardine ensemble of powerhouse musicians – and their very own tap dancer – to play hot jazz as it was in the era when live music was king. The outfit encompasses a blustery brass lineup, a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and Miz Elizabeth’s vocalizing in both English and French, with a voice that harkens back to another era yet feels refreshingly modern. The brainchild of Bibs and Miz Elizabeth, the Sardine sound fuses musical influences from New York, Paris and New Orleans that were nurtured from the Prohibition era through the Great Depression, World War II and beyond.

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