Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio: Press

Buttery Voiced Swinger

A Crooner of the highest caliber

Casey McGill and the Blue Four Trio played '30s and '40s swing and jump blues. The acoustics in the room are fantastic—who knew?—and the band's set was like a live version of KUOW's Swing Years and Beyond.

You certainly can't accuse Casey MacGill of jumping on the bandwagon.

Of the show's soloists,... only Casey MacGill, the ukulele-strumming band leader, has the kind of shrugged-off charm one associates with being cool in the swing era.

A lone guy comes onstage, singing and plucking a ukulele. Your mind starts humming....Suddenly--bam!--the lights blaze and an art deco bandstand designed by Thomas Lynch rolls forward, swarming with musicians dressed for a sweaty, 1940's night of music. Casey MacGill rejoins his band, Gotham City Gates, as Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" rocks the house. The audience about dies of pleasure.

... the personification of swing authenticity