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The debut album from Newcastle-based nine-piece House of the Black Gardenia is a heady brew of 1920s jazz and blues rarities and authentic original compositions flavoured with the macabre and the mischievous.

Viper jazz, dirty blues and infectious swing rhythms more potent than a bathtub full of bootleg gin. Born of the desire to get their city's dancefloors swinging to the lesser-known roots music of the 1920s and '30s, House of the Black Gardenia brings together the new generation of Newcastle's jazz, blues and swing scene for a raucous revival of old-fashioned good times.

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