Top Jazz and Gypsy Flamenco artists including singer, Judith Hill, collaborate on cutting-edge, Flamenco-Jazz hybrid album recorded in Los Angeles, CA and Seville, Spain.

Ethan Margolis’s Los Angeles based group, the Sir Sultry Quintet, releases an album that seamlessly blends Spain’s Flamenco traditions with Los Angeles’s vibrant World Jazz music scene and are awarded a feature music pick by the LA Weekly.

View album vieo trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUK_C779Rc&feature=youtu.be

Led by guitarist and vocalist, Ethan Margolis, the Los Angeles-based Sir Sultry Quintet fuses elements of flamenco, jazz and blues and will release its first full length album entitled “Soleángeles” (July 15th, 2014) The name, “Soleángeles” is derived from the combination of two words: Soleá (Flamenco’s mother song) and Angeles  (Los Angeles). The album was recorded in both Los Angeles and Seville, Spain and Margolis’s band, Sir Sultry, has been a featured music pick in the LA Weekly.  Margolis, as bandleader and composer, sees it as his responsibility to work towards bridging the two musical cultures in a modern, cohesive fashion that never ceases to excite listeners.

After having lived 11 years in southern Spain performing with Gypsy artists and having lead sold-out international tours, the 36 year-old Margolis arrived in Los Angeles with a mission to further bridge the musical cultures of Spain and American Jazz and Blues.  “Soleángeles” is Margolis’s first album to be officially released with this purpose and is truly a remarkable work where he features some of the USA’s top jazz musicians as well as the collaborations of his Gypsy Flamenco artist friends from Spain.  

The album, as a compositional work, blends deep Flamenco rhythms and harmony with the improvised and “open” instrumental solos typical of jazz.  In the compositions, Margolis allowed for each instrument to take on personalities both within world music and American jazz and blues.  He composed and arranged the music to find common ground between Spain and the USA, creating a sort of “stepping stone across the Atlantic,” as he calls it.  At times within the music, the guitars and pianos accompany the saxophone or flute the way they might play to a flamenco singer.  In other moments, powerful vocalists from both the USA and Spain sing soulful renditions of their cultures.

Some of the featured artists of “Soleángeles” include Judith Hill (The Film “20 Feet From Stardom, Michael Jackson, TV’s The Voice), Mitchel Forman (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wayne Shorter) Hussain Jiffry (Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes), Jimmy Branly (Pancho Sanchez, Chucho Valdez), Katisse Buckingham (Herbie Hancock, Pancho Sanchez, Dr. Dre), Juan Bacán (Flamenco’s Pinini singing dynasty) and Ramón Porrina (Buika, Tomatito)

“Soleángeles” will be released digitally by BFM distribution based out of Los Angeles, California and Margolis and his Sir Sultry Quintet will perform at the Baked Potato Jazz Club in Studio City as well as Alva’s Showroom on July 26, 2014 in San Pedro to support the release of the album.  For more details about Ethan Margolis or his album, “Soleángeles”

Top Jazz and Gypsy Flamenco artists including singer, Judith Hill, collaborate on cutting-edge, Flamenco-Jazz hybrid album recorded in Los Angeles, CA and Seville, Spain.

Ethan Margolis’s Los Angeles based group, the Sir Sultry Quintet, releases an album that seamlessly blends Spain’s Flamenco traditions with Los Angeles’s vibrant World Jazz music scene and are awarded a feature music pick by the LA Weekly.

View album video trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUK_C779Rc&feature=youtu.be

Led by guitarist and vocalist, Ethan Margolis, the Los Angeles-based Sir Sultry Quintet fuses elements of flamenco, jazz and blues and will release its first full length album entitled “Soleángeles” (July 15th, 2014) The name, “Soleángeles” is derived from the combination of two words: Soleá (Flamenco’s mother song) and Angeles  (Los Angeles). The album was recorded in both Los Angeles and Seville, Spain and Margolis’s band, Sir Sultry, has been a featured music pick in the LA Weekly.  Margolis, as bandleader and composer, sees it as his responsibility to work towards bridging the two musical cultures in a modern, cohesive fashion that never ceases to excite listeners.

After having lived 11 years in southern Spain performing with Gypsy artists and having lead sold-out international tours, the 36 year-old Margolis arrived in Los Angeles with a mission to further bridge the musical cultures of Spain and American Jazz and Blues.  “Soleángeles” is Margolis’s first album to be officially released with this purpose and is truly a remarkable work where he features some of the USA’s top jazz musicians as well as the collaborations of his Gypsy Flamenco artist friends from Spain.  

The album, as a compositional work, blends deep Flamenco rhythms and harmony with the improvised and “open” instrumental solos typical of jazz.  In the compositions, Margolis allowed for each instrument to take on personalities both within world music and American jazz and blues.  He composed and arranged the music to find common ground between Spain and the USA, creating a sort of “stepping stone across the Atlantic,” as he calls it.  At times within the music, the guitars and pianos accompany the saxophone or flute the way they might play to a flamenco singer.  In other moments, powerful vocalists from both the USA and Spain sing soulful renditions of their cultures.

Some of the featured artists of “Soleángeles” include Judith Hill (The Film “20 Feet From Stardom, Michael Jackson, TV’s The Voice), Mitchel Forman (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wayne Shorter) Hussain Jiffry (Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes), Jimmy Branly (Pancho Sanchez, Chucho Valdez), Katisse Buckingham (Herbie Hancock, Pancho Sanchez, Dr. Dre), Juan Bacán (Flamenco’s Pinini singing dynasty) and Ramón Porrina (Buika, Tomatito)

“Soleángeles” will be released digitally by BFM distribution based out of Los Angeles, California and Margolis and his Sir Sultry Quintet will perform at the Baked Potato Jazz Club in Studio City as well as Alva’s Showroom on July 26, 2014 in San Pedro to support the release of the album.  For more details about Ethan Margolis or his album, “Soleángeles”

Tour Dates Include:
07/26 - Alvas Showroom, Los Angeles, CA (Sir Sultry) 
08/01 - The Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA. (Ethan Margolis's World Blues)