Four of the oldest swingers in town have recreated the sounds of the classic jazz clubs of Paris.

The Hot Club Swing Quartet this week officially release ’Mind The Swing’, a collection of 13 songs taken from 1930s-era jazz and swing, made famous by the likes of Django Reinhart and Stefan Grapelli in the legendary ’Hot Clubs’ of Paris.

The Hot Club Swing Quartet feature violin-player Brian Myers, singer and guitarist Dickie Best and bass player Pete Christian, and are led by Manx radio personality Marc Tyley, who also sings and plays guitar.

The group got together two years ago, after Marc and Brian wanted to recreate the sounds of their favourite genre.

Following a spell of gentle persuasion, Marc recruited the well-known and highly proficient duo of Dickie and Pete, who are members of many blues and swing bands in the island, such as Loose Crew and the Big Wheel Blues band.

Marc, at 63, is the youngest member of, what he describes as ’the oldest boy band in town’, while Brian, at 83, maintains with pride that he is the only band member that can actually remember the 30s!

’It is a genre that I was interested in for a long time, back when I was at college, a long time ago,’ said Marc.

’I have been listening to a lot of music from the classic Hot Club scene of Paris, back in the 1930s.

’The best way to describe the music is to say that it is a mixture of classic and gypsy jazz.

The music was made famous by the likes of Stefan Grapelli, Django Reinhart and so on, and the songs are wonderful, timeless classics, taken from the Great American Songbook that we just love.’

The album was recorded in one day at the Ballagroove studios, in Ballasalla, by the producer Gypo Buggane.

’The studio is basically a metal industrial unit with no air conditioning, and we ended up spending what was the hottest day of the summer, playing the songs and recording them live.’ said Marc.

’But I guess it is Hot Club Jazz, so that all fits.’

’It ends with a special personal touch from Marc. The clean CD sound fades away, and is replaced by the crackling of a 78 rpm record, which blends into a recording of Marc’s father, Leonard Tyley, who led a dance orchestra.

He managed to track down an un-pressed acetate recording of the group, and included it on his album as a bonus track.

’I managed to rescue one of them, a track called Apple Honey, a Woody Herman song,’ he said.

’I thought, seeing that it was almost 70 years to the week, in 1948, that it was recorded, I it would be nice to put it on too, and finally get my dad’s record released.’

’Mind The Swing’ is a limited edition CD-only release, produced in a fabulously-authentic looking sleeve and vinyl record-finish, available for £10 from the group’s Facebook page.

They are to hold a launch gig at the suitably-French L’Experience restaurant, with entrance £35, which includes a meal and CD, on Tuesday, December 4.