Bei Mir Bist du Schoen Live by The Hot Sardines (PopMatters, presented by The Music Playground)

“Dixieland has moved on up“ -- The Wall Street Journal “A revelation“ -- Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center “Consistently electrifying live“ -- Popmatters Take a blustery brass lineup, layer it over a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and tie the whole thing together with a one-of-the-boys frontwoman whose vocals have been compared to Anita O'Day's, and you have the Hot Sardines. (We haven't even told you about the tap dancer yet.) In a short time, the Hot Sardines have gone from their first gig -- at a coffeeshop on the last Q train stop in Queens -- to selling out Joe's Pub three times in three months, headlining at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing (where they played to a crowd of 6000 on Bastille Day), and opening for the Bad Plus, Lulu Gainsbourg and French gypsy-jazz artist Zaz. Through it all they've become regulars at the Shanghai Mermaid speakeasy and