Biography
In 1996 saxophonist David Sholl, drummer Lorne Entress, bassist Dean Cassell, and guitarist Milt Reder united to establish Four Piece Suit, an instrumental ensemble intent on dismantling entrenched American traditions that include jazz, blues, swing, R&B, and additional styles. Ready to Where? appeared on Ocean Music within the band’s debut year and earned widespread critical praise. Even while consistently and correctly rejecting any swing-revival label, Four Piece Suit saw its audience expand once that movement reached peak visibility, securing support slots alongside proven draws such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The quartet further contributed tracks to numerous prominent swing and lounge anthologies plus tribute collections, earned a Grammy-ballot nomination for its Henry Mancini cover, and supplied cues to a range of motion-picture and television projects, among them HBO’s Sex and the City. While session and screen-music commitments continued to accelerate, the group reinforced its screen associations by issuing the 1999 follow-up Matinee Idylls.
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