While Sinatra created Songs for Swinging Lovers and Robbie is King of Brit Pop, there is no finer exponent of "Brit-Swing" than Louis Hoover.

 

Louis Hoover coined the phrase for big band music with a modern attitude and this amazing vocalist can "Brit-Swing" with style!

 

This man takes the classics of big band music, infuses them with a new energy and a new flavour. Then he serves them up, without apology, as something more than nostalgia.

 

Here's the big surprise: the people who are buying his albums are as young as he is and even younger.

 

Louis Hoover has performed with many bands; including Wall Street Crash (who had nine hit albums across Europe) and with Timecode, with whom he had a US number one hit with a version of the classic Louie Louie; however it was after touring around Europe and the USA singing swing classics to sell out audiences that he realised the interest in “Brit Swing” was just more than a passing fad.

 

On returning to England, recordings of his performances of standards and his own compositions managed to impress Ronnie Scott enough for Ronnie to offer Louis a series of dates at his world famous Jazz venue.

 

Since then, Louis Hoover and his big band have played their Salute to Sinatra to sell-out audiences and his album, And This is Me… - recorded with many of the veteran musicians from Sinatra’s own orchestra - has received critical acclaim and extensive air play.

 

In Spring 2000, Louis received rave reviews for his portrayal of Frank Sinatra in the critically acclaimed Frank, Sammy & Dean – The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas.

 

Spring 2001 saw him undertaking a nationwide tour with his Salute to Sinatra production, followed by his reprisal of the Sinatra role in a further tour of Frank, Sammy & Dean.

 

While Hoover has been artfully getting his act together a bandwagon has begun to roll with artists as diverse as Harry Connick Jnr, Sinead O’Connor, Natalie Cole, Robert Palmer, Robbie Williams, Elton John and Rod Stewart all jumping aboard with their own rendition of forties smooch and fifties standards.

 

Now the time is right for Louis Hoover to take his place at the head of this prestigious parade, because Louis Hoover is a purist. Louis Hoover is the real thing.

 

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Audrey Simpson –

Robert C Kelly Limited

0141 229 1444  or audrey@robertckelly.co.uk