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Outside In Music is thrilled to announce the January 19, 2024 release of Keep Swingin’, a collaborative new project spearheaded by renowned pianist Garry Dial and stalwart arranger-drummer Rich DeRosa. Keep Swingin’ is a tribute to the great jazz educator Charlie Banacos, whose pedagogy has influenced legions of jazz musicians over the past 50 years. Keep Swingin’ will be released as a 10-track collection of Banacos’ music, reimagined and re-arranged by Dial and DeRosa. It is performed by some of Banacos’ most accomplished devotees, and friends including Mike Stern, Jeff Berlin, Jerry Bergonzi, Wayne Krantz, and many more. Complimenting the album is a stunning 100-page book of Charlie’s students’ personal anecdotes, photographs, artistic renderings, and more. The book features corresponding QR codes per tune, per chapter.

Tracklisting:

1.  Keep Swingin’ (feat. Garry Dial, Terell Stafford and Dick Oatts)

2.  Great Awakening (feat. Wayne Krantz and Joe Hubbard)

3. The Bat Cave (feat. Gerard D’Angelo, Garry Dial, Gary Smulyan and John Riley)

4. Pine Needles (feat. Mike Stern and Garry Dial)

5. Mummy’s Curse (feat. Jerry Bergonzi)

6. Bernie Burnola (feat. Helio Alves, Anne Drummond, Paulo Levi, Mauricio Zottarelli)

7. A-440 (feat. Jeff Berlin)

8. Nero (feat. Garry Dial and Jay Anderson)

9. Pluto Language (feat. Dick Oatts, Victor Provost, Anne Drummond, Mauricio Zottarelli)

10. Pelaghia (feat. Margaret and Barbara Banacos)

Credits:

Executive Producer: Garry Dial
Produced by Garry Dial, Rich DeRosa, Margaret Banacos, Barbara Banacos
All Compositions Published by Garry Dial Music (BMI)
Cover Design by Kathy Nestor