CD:   Just the Two of Us
Terry Eaton & Bob MacInnis
of Satin Swing

Stardust, Do It Again, A Sleepy Lagoon, Street of Dreams, Danny Boy, Begin the Beguine, Only an Angel, A Sleepin’ Bee, With a Song in My Heart, It Had To Be You, No Love, No Nothin’, It’s the Mood That I’m In, My Funny Valentine, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Here Am I Broken Hearted, You Made Me Love You, Stranger on the Shore, I Can’t Get Started, I’m Old Fashioned, The Folks That Live on the Hill, The Man I Love, I thought About You, That’s All. 

Recorded, mixed & mastered at PBS, Westwood MA. Engineer, Peter Kontrimas. Design & Liner Notes, Mary Demaso. Contributors: Jean Kelly, Ruth Schwab, Robin Verdier. Photography with the cooperation of ScupperJacks’s. 

This inaugural Satin Swing CD skims joyfully across the surface of the remarkable collaboration of Terry Eaton and Bob MacInnis, barely but delightfully sampling the fountain of music at their fingertips.  Players of impressive versatility and scope, Terry and Bob, along with reed man, Bruce Burrell, constitute the core of a group known for its elegant sound and extensive repertoire.

As a regular feature of Friday and Saturday nights at ScupperJack’s in Acton MA since 1992, Satin Swing has developed an immense songbook comprising 100 years of American music, ranging from the rarely played gem to the familiar tones of such icons of the culture as Berlin, Gershwin, Porter, and Rogers.  Bob and Terry’s apparent arrangements on this CD are, like their ScupperJack evenings, entirely impromptu renderings of those works.  Terry remarks that they have an uncanny ability to read each other’s thoughts mid-song; she admits, however, that no piece will ever be played the same way twice.
 

In these tracks, Bob MacInnis effortlessly transposes his distinctively sweet clear tone from the cornet to the flugelhorn to the clarinet with hardly a breath in between.  With uncommon facility and characteristically impeccable timing, he swaps from reeds to brass and back.  Simultaneously, as musicians who have played with her will attest, Terry Eaton’s left hand evokes from her Roland keyboard a sophisticated rhythm and bass line, while her right hand creates an apparently infinite array of harmony and chords, sustaining the boundless encyclopedia of melodies and arrangements mysteriously catalogued somewhere inside her head.  As Bob says, she has the amazing ability to make her one keyboard sound as though it were three entirely distinct instruments.

Indeed, many a ScupperJack’s patron has migrated after dinner to the restaurant’s upper level expecting to see a five or six piece band; the inevitable startled comments is, “Just two of you?”  As the 23 tracks on this CD demonstrate, for just beautiful music, just two is quite fine.

….Robin Verdier, Monte Carlo Jazz Ensemble

  “This CD was certainly long overdue! Terry and Bob are giving you just a small sample of their huge repertoire of tunes from the Great American Songbook, which they perform beautifully.  Their interpretation of this music makes for joyful listening.”                       ….Ruth Schwab, Wunderbar

   Harmony is the clue to good living and certainly to good music.  Terry and Bob are perfect examples of this and have enhanced my band over the years in a most wonderful way.  They simply "Get it" when they play together -- no rehearsing is necessary.  They feel it and play it.   I look forward to this new CD and wish them continued glorious harmony!"          ....Jean Kelly

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Terry Eaton, Roland Keyboard

Bob MacInnis, Cornet, Flugelhorn, & Clarinet

Bob & Terry want to express their thanks to Peter Kontrimas, Deborah Lynne Eaton, Rob MacInnis, and Mary Demaso for their assistance in the reproduction of this recording, to Jean Kelly, Ruth Schwab and Robin Verdier for their kind words, to Jack Mendosa, Don Cernak, Chris Mendosa and Brad Mendosa at ScupperJack's, their friends from Cleveland, Kray and Norman, and to all tose who have listened to and supported their music.