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Imagine an act that combines Jazz's earliest Dixieland/Swing days with the later "difficult" free-jazz experimentation of Cecil Taylor and John Zorn, and chooses to completely ignore all that Miles/Bird/Coltrane stuff in the middle.
Imagine if Thelonious Monk harbored not-so-secret adoration of Martin Denny, Floyd Cramer, B.Bumble & the Stingers, and Liberace.
Imagine a Tony Clifton that isn't a joke, a saloon singer that isn't intended as kitsch or camp, a "lounge act that transcendeth all knowing", in the words of Nick Tosches.
JSH will begin performing more often with his lounge act soon, and we will cover all activities here on this site. Sometimes it's a trio, sometimes a quartet, and sometimes it's just JSH alone with a keyboard or even completely unaccompanied.
His creativity knows no boundaries, and that includes boundaries of good taste.
"I am the Sammy Davis Jr. of Fayette County", JSH once drunkenly muttered onstage, although he may have just been referring to his height.
image: flyer for JSH show, April 19, 2000, Lexington, KY.
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