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Swing Praise is an alternative praise & worship project released on BEC Recordings in 1999, a division of Tooth & Nail Records. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Gene Eugene of Adam Again fame at The Green Room in Huntington Beach and Front Page Studios in Glendale, California. Arranged by Gene Eugene and Rob Watson. Charts by Rob Watson. “Your favorite worship songs played with big band boogie woogie.”
A follow-up album, simply entitled Swing Praise, Volume 2, was released by BEC Recordings the following year.
Featuring vocals by Adrina Jensen and Marshall Rohner, backed by: Richard Tuttobene on piano; Marshall Rohner, Michael Roe of The 77s and Lost Dogs fame, and Chris Brigandi of The Lifters, Wild Blue Yonder, and The Screamin’ Rays fame on guitar; Curt Williams banjo and tenor guitar; Jonny Ray Bartel of The Screamin’ Rays fame on acoustic bass; Burleigh Drummond of Ambrosia and Lost Dogs fame on drums; and Brandon A. Bawks and Jack Jaffe on vibraphone. As well featuring Mark Hollingsworth on tenor and baritone saxophone with saxophone solos provided by Doug Webb (as well as clarinet); Chris Tedesco on trumpet; and Bob McChesney on trombone.
As you may have heard by now, American ccm is being gripped by another craze to run alongside the Ska revival. Swing is now the thing. And just in case you imagine ‘Glen Miller Praise’ albums, I would add here that the ‘swing’ in question, though featuring the big brass riffs of the war years, also features rocking rhythms a bit in the Louis Jordan mould with enough stridency to make sense to a 1999 youth following. If you’re appalled by the idea of redoing worship classics like «More Precious Than Silver» and «As The Deer» in arrangements suitable to jive and jitterbug to, then almost certainly you also frowned on those sanctified dance worship and heavy metal praise albums of a few years back. But if you’re prepared for a fresh take on worship songs this hard riffing celebration may be the fun filled pick me up you’re looking for. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, October 1999]
CD tracklist:
01. Lord I Lift Your Name On High
02. He Has Made Me Glad
03. More Precious Than Silver
04. I Will Celebrate
05. As The Deer
06. What A Mighty God We Serve
07. Amazing Grace
08. Seek Ye First
09. The Happy Song
10. Awesome God
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by BEC Recordings.
A full-page advertisement for various new releases on BEC Recordings, including the the swing project Swing Praise, Volume One, was featured in the April 1999 issue of CCM Magazine.
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