finetune artist: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

The most immediately successful exponents of the new swing boom that swept the southern Californian marketplace in the late 90s, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy established their reputation with a weekly residency at the Derby dancehall in Los Angeles. Though they had been around for some time, their profile increased substantially when they made a cameo appearance in the 1996 independent movie, Swingers. The band had been founded in Ventura, California, in 1989 by vocalist and guitarist Scotty Morris, an established session musician in the area. His first exposure to big band swing came, aged nine, when he heard Cab Calloway's "Minnie The Moocher" sung during a Betty Boop cartoon. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy finally gave him the chance to pursue the style further, after he had become disillusioned with the local music scene. The group grew from a trio to eventually include Dirk Shumaker (bass), Kurt Sodergren (drums/percussion), Karl Hunter (saxophone/clarinet), Glen "The Kid" Marhevka (trumpet), Andy "Lucious" Rowley (saxophone), Jeff Harris (trombone) and Josh Levy (piano).

Listen to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Finetune.

(2005) Best Of/20th Century
(2004) Everything You Want For Christmas
(2003) Save My Soul
(1999) This Beautiful Life
(1998) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Go Daddy-O
You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)
I Wanna Be Like You
Big Time Operator
Big and Bad