Name: Still Swingin'
Duration: P00H04M30S
Description: Still Swingin' tells the story of Jazz music without going too deep into it's development. While the horns are ablaze, the lyrics speak to how jazz has been beaten up, changed up, and even cast aside, but yet it endures. We end this tune by giving it a gospel flavor to inject the feeling of origin in the music. Jazz lives!

Still Swingin'

from MEET ME AT THE CROSSROADS by Sweet Lu Olutosin

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Meet Me At The Crossroads, Sweet Lu Olutosin’s third CD as a leader, features him in prime form mostly singing his own originals. He is joined on the diverse set by pianist Tyrone Jackson, bassist Kevin Smith, and drummer Henry Connerway with occasional contributions by tenor-saxophonist Mace Hibbard, trumpeter Lester Walker and background singer Crystal Monet. The great Donald Brown (an alumnus of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers) is the producer and also guests on piano on some selections.

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Meet Me At The Crossroads, Sweet Lu Olutosin’s third CD as a leader, features him in prime form mostly singing his own originals. He is joined on the diverse set by pianist Tyrone Jackson, bassist Kevin Smith, and drummer Henry Connerway with occasional contributions by tenor-saxophonist Mace Hibbard, trumpeter Lester Walker and background singer Crystal Monet. The great Donald Brown (an alumnus of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers) is the producer and also guests on piano on some selections.

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Still Swingin' tells the story of Jazz music without going too deep into it's development. While the horns are ablaze, the lyrics speak to how jazz has been beaten up, changed up, and even cast aside, but yet it endures. We end this tune by giving it a gospel flavor to inject the feeling of origin in the music. Jazz lives!

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STILL SWINGIN’
(Kevin Mahogany, arranged by Tyrone Jackson & Lu Olutosin)

Some folks work from 9 to 5
Trade their life for a line of jive
Never had foresight to see
Where the changes had to be

Thought that they had got the word
Thought it all died after Bird
But we’re still swingin’

There are those who stayed around
Came up with a brand new sound
Miles would get the band to groove
Play that music, make the people move

Not everybody got the word
Thought it all died after Bird
But we’re still swingin’

Jazz has been around awhile
Been kicked around but kept it’s style
Picked up everything you hear
To put some fresh sounds in your ear

Not everybody got the word
Thought it all died after Bird
But we’re still swingin’

Now we’ve laid it out for you
So what are YOU prepared to do
Keep Jazz alive, Yes we can
Break new ground, that’s our plan
Not everybody got the word
Thought it all died after Bird
But we’re still swingin’

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from MEET ME AT THE CROSSROADS, released April 21, 2017

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Sweet Lu Olutosin Atlanta, Georgia

Jazz vocalist, lyricist, and composer Sweet Lu Olutosin is a top 20 international Jazz recording artist. Whether headlining at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C or, playing the Teatro Rendano in Consenza, Italy , Lu’s performances
are life changing.
He uses the idioms of vocal jazz, blues, and gospel to share the spiritual healing and love this music, his music, imbues. Stay Tuned! ... more