Playing the Watermill jazz Club in Dorking tonight the Man Overboard Quintet are safely back on dry land again ahead of the release of Down in the Deep Deep Blue which is to come out on 28 August.

The second album from the gypsy jazz hot club swing tradsters, featuring violin, clarinet, vocals, guitar and double bass, this latest album is their second one for Champs Hill Records, a classical label offshoot of a Sussex chamber music venue where the album was recorded in February last year.

Following on from 2013’s All Hands on Deck guitarist Jean-Marie Fagon in a note in the CD booklet introduces the new album by commenting that the band has selected “songs that are perhaps unfamiliar to some people” and mentions that the material ranges from the 1920s to the 1950s touching on “hot swing, torch songs, raw blues, a little ragtime.” He is joined on the album by violinist Thomas Gould, clarinettist Ewan Bleach, singer Louisa Jones and bassist Dave O’Brien. Numbers include Isham Jones’ ‘I Hate Myself For Being So Mean To You’, Duke Ellington’s ‘Jubilee Stomp’ and closer ‘What A Little Moonlight Can Do.’

Jean-Marie Fagon from Man Overboard on guitar above with Ewan Bleach