Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators

Artist Information

Biography

Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators has been entertaining Seattle area audiences since 2007. Here is a bit of info about the members of the band.

Sunga Rose - vocals & ukulele
Sunga was raised on a diet of musical theater, 70s folk revival, funk and the Beatles. In other words, she has been genre-confused since childhood. Then she heard Mildred Bailey and her life was changed forever. Since then she has immersed herself in the music, fashion, and culture of the Jazz Age. Major influences are the aforementioned Miss Bailey, Lee Morse, Annette Hanshaw, Connee Boswell, Ruth Etting, Bing Crosby, and the wonderful Cliff Edwards (aka Ukulele Ike). She plays a vintage 1930s concert ukulele by Echo-Uke.

Carey Rayburn - cornet & brush kit
Carey trained under world renown Trumpeter Allen Vizzutti as well as David Gordon, Principal Trumpet of the Seattle Symphony. Having been kicked out of the University of Washington with a Bachelors degree in trumpet performance and a resounding "Stay out!" from the administration, Carey has since found his way into several notorious clubs around town playing with a cavalcade of different musicians. As a freelance musician in Seattle he plays in several groups around town and does studio work as well as writing pieces and doing arrangements. However, from Mariachi to Klezmer, Big Band Swing to Classical, he hasn't found anything quite as alluring as the likes of making music with Miss Rose and Her Percolators.

Hugh Sutton - piano & accordion
Hugh Sutton has been playing accordion & piano in Seattle longer than he cares to remember. Were a list compiled of the folks he has played with it would read like a phonebook (remember those?), but some of the luminaries Hugh has had the fortune to play with are: Zazou, Circus Contraption, Baby Gramps, Dudley Manlove Quartet, Iron Composer, Mummery, Hanuman, Jack Cook & Reggie Miles. He is also currently playing with Maria Gitana (Flamenco Dancer) & Manuela Horne (Yodeling Dominatrix). Hugh is excited to join the ranks of Miss Rose & her Rythm Percolators!

Instrumentation

Sunga Rose - Vocals, ukulele
Hugh Sutton - Accordion, Piano.
Carey Rayburn - Cornet, Brush Kit
Guest artist - available for quartet gigs - Tuba, Upright Bass

Discography

Live At Jack Straw, 2011
What Will Santa Claus Say?, 2010
Who Walks In, 2008
Available from band website and CD Baby. All tracks are also available for digital download.

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Audio

• Paper Moon
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• Concentratin' On You
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• Who Walks In
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• Button Up Your Overcoat
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• There Ain't No Sweet Man
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Press

• "Who Walks In" reviewed [+ Show ]
  

  "Who Walks In," the debut album from Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators, captures the sound & feel..."Who Walks In," the debut album from Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators, captures the sound & feel of 1920’s & 1930’s popular jazz styles with a mix of 11 classics & nearly forgotten songs from the era, including wonderful takes on such generation-crossing standards as “Ain’t She Sweet” & “’Deed I Do”. Singer & ukulele-player Sunga Rose leads a spot-on 4-piece band through a repertoire of pure nostalgia. And yet, this is no museum piece. The Rhythm Percolators quartet gives these songs new life with their deft & bouyant readings, making gems like the sprightly “At the Codfish Ball” sound almost contemporary. In addition, the outstanding title song, “Who Walks In,” has a wonderful Eastern European bounce while the ballad “Shanghai Lil,” exhibiting some of Miss Rose’s best vocals, reveals as much about its era as it does the timelessness of great song craft. As the Deperession era's popular radio hits can be seen as timeless classics, Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators’ excellent new release “Who Walks In” is sure to appeal to music fans looking beyond today’s hottest sounds and should definitely be given a listen to.
  
  -Rice B. and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team

Setlist

Sets are typically 45 minutes; about 11 songs. All songs are covers from the Jazz Age: 1923-1935. Some familiar tunes such as All of Me, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, and Bye Bye Blackbird. Many forgotten gems that are happily being revived.

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