Scallymatic Orchestra was founded in 2000 by guitarist Mathijs Duringhof. After nine years of thorough preparation, Annie Get Your Gun finally sees the light. Scallymatic Orchestra effortlessly blends funk, Latin, jazz and Brazilian music, as was common in seventies jazz funk and fusion. This music only thrives with a particularly tight performance, but that shouldn't be a problem for musicians who
… also play with The Young Sinatras, Wouter Hamel, The Wicked Jazz Sounds Band, Graham B's Jazz Juice and Leslie Nielsen. Guest roles are played by vocalists Paul van Kessel and Wieke Garcia, keyboardist Stefan Schmid from Zuco 103 and flutist Han Litz. Although their sound sounds instantly recognizable, it is difficult to directly compare Scallymatic Orchestra with a source from the seventies. Even Steely Dan's Do It Again, the only cover Annie Get Your Gun has, is heavily scallymatized. (AD)more
