Jazz-y-ophiles Help: John Sheridan & His Band, Are these guys for Real???

Happen to be spinnin' the portable table top radio past the local Jazz FM station and was "blown away" by a cut I heard. I was sure this was a 30's-40's thing 'cause of the playing. The rhythm and pace were "right on". The instrumentals had that authentic not "snore bore clone" sound. I waited until the end and luckily they actually announced who it was. I proceeded to search the AMG and found the artist and recording. It s the John Sheridan band and the cut was 'My Extraordinary Girl' off a new album called Get 'Rhythm in Your Feet'.

Here is a copy info from the AMG page so please, if you are familiar with this band let me know what you think of them. If that one cut is any indication then these guys are good enough to be the genuine article:

Get Rhythm in Your Feet
Artist John Sheridan
Album Title Get Rhythm in Your Feet
Date of Release 2002
AMG Rating
Genre Jazz


1. Stop, Look and Listen (Freed/Van Eps/VanEps) - 6:12
2. All the Cats Join In performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 4:00
3. Indian Summer (Dubin/Herbert) - 4:00
4. I Love My Baby (Green/Warren) - 6:47
5. I Was Doing All Right performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 4:08
6. A Gal in Calico (Robin/Schwartz) - 6:46
7. Humpty Dumpty Heart performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 3:07
8. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Arlen/Koehler) - 3:20
9. People Like You and Me performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 3:29
10. I'm in the Mood for Love (Fields/McHugh) - 4:19
11. Gey Rhythm in Your Feet performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 2:57
12. A Handful of Stars (Lawrence/Shapiro) - 4:40
13. You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 3:24

14. My Extraordinary Girl (Shand) - 4:09 this is the cut I heard

15. Walkin' by the River performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 4:01
16. The Dixieland Band performed by Sheridan / Becky Kilgore - 5:27

Phil Flanigan - Bass
Ed Metz, Jr. - Drums
Russ Phillips - Trombone
Gary Baldassari - Engineer
Rebecca Kilgore - Vocals
Scott Yanow - Liner Notes
Nick Warren - Assistant Engineer
John Sheridan - Piano, Arranger, Leader, Producer
Reuben Ristrom - Guitar
Mat Domber - Executive Producer
Rachel Domber - Executive Producer
Karen Kambestad - Supervisor
Cindi Mayes - Copyist
Randy Reinhart - Cornet
Brian Ogilvie - Sax (Tenor)
Ron Hockett - Clarinet, Editing
Bryan Shaw - Mastering
Dave Hyman - Cover Design

Thanks for any other info you can give me.

 

There's no question that Sheridan is the "genuine article," as you put it. He's a revivalist, I suppose, but I don't mean that in a negative sense. He's dedicated to keeping a particular set of older styles alive and popping. He's a gifted swing and stride pianist and writes crack medium-sized big band arrangements in a distinctly pre-war manner (actually more than one pre-war manner), as your ears (and the rest of your body, I imagine) have already told you. It's nice stuff.

Louis