Hot House West Swing Orchestra

Hot House West is an exciting ensemble whose mission is to celebrate the timeless allure of swing rhythm. Founded in Salt Lake City in 2011, the band cultivates a one-of-a-kind personality blending the virtuosic yet soulful music of Django Reinhardt with their western roots and American swing influence.

The band has become a tight-knit community of some of the country’s top-tier jazz musicians, and the friendship and community spirit they share is immediately palpable. Group vocals, audience interaction, masterful improvisation, and a ceaseless swinging pocket keep audiences smiling, laughing, and tapping their feet from the first note to the last.

The Hot House West Swing Orchestra combines stellar vocals, a big band of horns, and a Django-inspired rhythm section sound consisting of two guitars, bass, and drums. Their guitar-driven interplay, acrobatic horn lines, punchy hits, and collective improvisation alluding to the streets of New Orleans captures a holistic definition of swing unmatched by any other group.

This event features, Andrew Glanville, Ben Nichols, Brian Woodbury, Chris Petty, Dan Jonas, David Baker, Denney Fuller, Grayson Wickel, Hayley Kirkland, James Martak, Joe Chisholm, Mike Tobian, and Nathan Royal.

Excellence In The Community

A 501 C3 working to create more and better performance opportunities for Utah musicians. Since we started in December of 2005, we have presented roughly 750 events.

We work with a wide range of musical styles. We are less interested in rock, and pop styles than in genres such as jazz, classical, Celtic, gypsy swing, folk, Broadway, French, Cabaret and the list goes on.