Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio

Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio performs music that swings. Nat "King"
Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino.
Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. Its music from the ''20's to the
'60's, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful

whole.

At the core of this group's sound are the band's sometimes sweet,
sometimes rough-hewn three-part harmony vocals and a
piano-ukulele-bass-and-drums rhythm section that swings along in a
variety of textures. Their debut recording as a group, "Casey
MacGill's Blue 4 Trio", features 10 trio tracks and 2 quartet tracks.

Casey MacGill is the heart and soul of the band. From California, he
is a classic Hollywood character in appearance and style. MacGill
plays boogie-woogie, swing, and stride piano. He blows a lyrical
cornet, and his most unique instrumental voice is a 6-string tenor
ukulele. He has been singing and arranging vocal harmonies for almost
30 years, in a career that stretches from Los Angeles (Mood Indigo,
feature films "Frances" and "Swing Shift") to Spokane, WA (The Spirits
of Rhythm and the neo-swing classic CD "Jump") to Broadway (The musical

"Swing") and finally to Seattle. He steers the band from his piano
bench, alternately cruising along and sweating feverishly, switching
intuitively between the ukulele and the piano and the cornet, singing
and scatting, sometimes all within the same song.

Mike Daugherty came to Seattle from Baltimore, Maryland--a fact that is

not lost on anyone. In the Pacific Northwest, he founded and led the
Yes Yes Boys, a popular early jazz and hokum band that featured Del Rey

on Ukulele. Almost everything about his style is East Coast, from his
bowties to his whiskey-cum-loudmouth singing style. Brash, yes, but
with a melancholy undertone. What is curiously understated is his
drumming.

Bassist Matt Weiner's resume includes performances and recordings with
The Flying Neutrinos, The Hot Club of Cowtown, The Asylum Street
Spankers, Rani Arbo, Danny Barnes and Willy Mason. He hails from
Boston, lived in New York City and Austin, TX before coming to Seattle.

He eschews the modern "amplified" acoustic bass style for the plucky
stomp of the early jazz bass pioneers like Walter Page, Pops Foster,
Steve Brown and Jimmy Blanton.

Together these three have started to leave their musical mark around
Seattle and around the world. Weekly Seattle gigs at landmark music
venues The Pink Door and Salty's on Alki have allowed them to hone
their sound. Featured prominently is a lack of amplifications,
allowing the real sound of the band and their instruments to permeate
the room. It has also allowed them to build a devoted following of
listeners, dancers and cocktail-sippers. More recently, Mike and Matt
appeared in the 5th Avenue Theatre's production of Buddy, the Buddy
Holly musical. In Europe, the trio have been an integral part of
"Swing" alumni Ryan Francois and Jenny Thomas' Camp Savoy and their
dance troupe, and have performed at the camp for 4 straight years.
They have appeared at the Fous de Danse Festival in Toulouse, the
Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and a Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in London.
 

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