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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
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BSO

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3 users heart off The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jump Jive an' Wail
3 users heart off The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie
3 users heart off The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie
3 users heart off The Brian Setzer Orchestra - This Cat's on a Hot Tin Roof
3 users heart off The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Rock This Town


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The Brian Setzer Orchestra (sometimes going by the acronym BSO) is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. The group had success covering Louis Prima's "Jump Jive an' Wail", which appeared on Prima's 1957 album The Wildest!. The BSO's follow up single was "Gettin' In the Mood."

In 1990, Setzer organized the orchestra, styled as a big band which included full sections of trumpet, trombone and saxophone players, and a rhythm section with Setzer on guitar and vocals, plus piano, string bass and drums. The orchestra began playing clubs in and around Los Angeles, and was eventually signed to Hollywood Records.

After the release of its first two albums in 1994 and 1996, the group achieved national acclaim during the Swing Revival of the mid-1990s, which saw other similar acts such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Squirrel Nut Zippers come to prominence. There had also been a change of labels, to Interscope Records. The band also had a slight change in orchestration, dropping the piano player. The arrangements on The Dirty Boogie (1998), a mix of Setzer-penned originals and covers of swing standards, had a much harder edge than the previous two albums. Setzer's cover of "Jump Jive an' Wail" was often mistaken for the original Louis Prima version which was featured in a commercial for The Gap, after which the band soon found unprecedented demand. The orchestra then embarked on several U.S. and world tours. Vavoom!, the follow-up album to The Dirty Boogie, did not gain the success of its predecessors because the Swing Revival was on a decline. However, the BSO did bounce back in the early 2000s with two albums of Christmas music and several supporting tours. The orchestra added two backing vocalists, one of whom, Julie Reiten, eventually became Setzer's wife.
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