Keven Aland & Hot Club SRQ

Gypsy jazz in the Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli mold is home territory for Hot Club SRQ, a trio built around Keven Aland's violin and vocals, with Jon McLaughlin on guitar and Glenn Stevenson on bass. The group, together for more than a decade, reaches well past the genre's standards into tango, rumba flamenco, bossa nova, samba and the American songbook. Aland earned a performance degree at the University of Colorado Boulder and set out as a classical violinist before Reinhardt's music steered him toward gypsy jazz. This set belongs to the Jazz Club of Sarasota's Jazz at Two concerts at the Unitarian Universalist church on Fruitville Road.