Even if its home is in Sweden in northern part of Europe, from a local perspective, it is indeed a southern band, as its members hail from Lund & Malmö in the southernmost Sweden - and the music is indeed syncopated! Southern Syncopaters is a classic ten-piece big band.
All members are amateur musicians (engineers, economists, students, etc), but have in common a great interest for the well arranged hot syncopated jazz of the 20's. The bands live performances are made in the spirit of the happy days in the 1920's, with all musicians dressed in flashy dinner jackets and with the song performed by some of the musicians in a brass coated, funnel shaped, battery powered amplifier to recreate the typical sound.
Southern Syncopaters is also considered to be a youthful and joyful band, so it was no coincidence that the release of the bands first CD in 1994, was called Happy Pal Stomp.
Tracklist:
01 Wa Wa Wa
02 The Boy In The Boat
03 Crazy Quilt
04 Mountain City Blues
05 Happy Pal Stomp
06 Keyboard Express
07 Hard Hearted Hanna
08 Clementine
09 Ozark Mountain Blues
10 Mary
11 The Stampede
12 Hot Tempered Blues
13 Deep Henderson
14 Paradise Wobble
15 Mandy, Make Up Your Mind
16 Shipwrecked
17 She's A Great Great Girl
18 Pass Out Lightly