"The Phantom Dancer" is unlike any swing album you've ever heard. 14 Classic Swing songs recorded in live, authentic 1930s style by Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band

Can you imagine what a swing singer and dance band would sound like if they breezed in from a time machine straight out of 1939? Would songs like Anything Goes or South of the Border sound as brassy and ersatz Sinatra as modern bands and crooners make them today?

Curious? So were 1920s & 30s Hot Jazz & Swing specialists Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band. They took 14 Swing Era songs and recorded them live in the studio exactly the way swing singers and orchestras did in the 1920s and 30s

It's all on the new CD Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band recorded - "The Phantom Dancer". An amazing collection of 14 Swing Era songs described as 'fresh, original and with a unique perspective on the familiar," by US journal JazzReview.com

"The Phantom Dancer" has an 8-page booklet with stories on every song plus previously unpublished photos from the 1920s and 30s

"The Phantom Dancer" takes you in fancy to a 1930s dance hall. Huge clusters of balloons: red, blue, white, yellow, green hang from the ceiling. Little cloth monkeys swing back and forth just out of reach above the heads of the happy collegians on the dance floor

Suddenly, a battery of spotlights is trained on the ceiling and down into the grasping hands of the dancers the balloons descend and the monkeys fall. That's the cue for "The Phantom Dancer", sweeping you up into the swirling dance with 14 classic songs that defined the Swing Era - songs by Gershwin, Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and more

Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band hail from Sydney, Australia. They specialize in Hot Jazz & Swing from the 1920s & 30s. All band members have toured internationally and played jazz festivals in the US, Europe & Japan. And many band members have played with the greats of American Swing & Jazz including Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett and the Glenn Miller Tribute Orchestra