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The Brian Setzer Orchestra is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. The group had success covering Louis Primas Jump Jive an Wail, which appeared in Primas 1957 album The Wildest!. The BSOs follow up single was Gettin In the Mood.
Setzer, who had grown up playing the baritone horn in school, often envisioned a rock guitar fronting a big band. In 1990, Setzer organized the orchestra, styled as a big band which included full sections of trumpet, trombone and saxophone players, and a rhythm section with Setzer on guitar and vocals, plus piano, string bass and drums. The orchestra began playing clubs in and around Los Angeles, and was eventually signed to Hollywood Records.
After the release of its first two albums in 1994 and 1996, the group achieved national acclaim during the Swing Revival of the mid 1990s, which saw other similar acts such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Squirrel Nut Zippers come to prominence. There had also been a change of labels, to Interscope Records. The band also had a slight change in orchestration, dropping the piano player. The arrangements on The Dirty Boogie (1998), a mix of Setzer-penned originals and covers of swing standards, had a much harder edge than the previous two albums. Setzers cover of Jump Jive an Wail was oftem mistaken for the original Louis Prima version which was featured in a commercial for The Gap, after which the band soon found unprecedented demand. The orchestra then embarked on several U.S. and world tours.
The follow-up album to The Dirty Boogie was Vavoom! which did not see the same success that its predecessor did, as the Swing Revival was dying out. However, the BSO did bounce back in the early 2000s with two albums of holiday music and several supporting tours. The orchestra added two backing vocalists, one of whom, Julie Reiten, eventually became Mrs. Brian Setzer.
Inspired by the use of Frank Comstocks arrangement of The Nutcracker Suite on one of the Christmas albums, Setzer lured Comstock out of retirement to create arrangements for Setzers 2007 album, Wolfgangs Big Night Out.
In 2009, the orchestra released a new album titled Songs from Lonely Avenue. This is the first album to feature all original songs written by Brian Setzer. Frank Comstock also worked on horn and string arrangements for the album. The song Mr. Surfer Goes Jazzin has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category, earning Setzer his 9th Grammy nomination.
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