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Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio Settles Into Iridium for Extended Run

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New York, NY...October 28, 2003...In February, when Mark O'Connor and his Hot Swing Trio played Lincoln Center, The New York Times described O'Connor as a musician who plays jazz “like he had a patent on it." Downbeat called the trio's most recent recording a “virtuoso fest." Mark O'Connor, guitarist Frank Vignola and bassist Jon Burr will bring their Grappelli/Reinhardt-influenced, instrumental jazz to New York's famed Iridium Jazz Club Nov. 11-16, 2003 for a rare, two-show-a-night, six day run.

Tickets Tuesday through Thursday are $30.00, and for Friday through Sunday are $35.00.

With O'Connor's new Thirty-Year Retrospective (OMAC Records) double-CD package in stores November 11, this New York run also celebrates the album's release and O'Connor's 30 years as a professional musician.

This intimate New York club appearance is unusual for the acclaimed trio which usually plays large concert halls across the country and played Lincoln Center in February to rave reviews.

In 2000, the Hot Swing Trio released its first album, Hot Swing!, a live concert recording on O'Connor's own OMAC Records label, in 2000, to spectacular reviews. Recognizing Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio as an important new voice on the jazz scene, The Chicago Tribune called the recording “one of the greatest jazz violin albums ever."

Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Jazz Trio's second recording, In Full Swing, was released on Sony

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