The Hot Sardines
PROJECTS:
Emerging nearly 20 years ago from the underground parties of Brooklyn to touring worldwide and recording a string of albums that’s racked up more than 70 million streams, the Hot Sardines’ own “potent and assured” (The New York Times), “simply phenomenal” (The Times, London) brand of reinvigorated classic jazz landed them at the center of a whirlwind. Their new album, Good News, is The Hot Sardines’ bid to bring that hard-earned momentum into living rooms, record collections, and – inevitably – onto another dance floor somewhere.
Released June 19, 2026, Good News is The Hot Sardines’ seventh studio album and – in a time that needs music more than ever – perhaps their most exuberantly alive. The Hot Sardines have spent nearly twenty years making the case that jazz from the 1920s, '30s, and '40s never stopped being relevant – it just needed the right band. Good News is the sound of a group that has fully grown into that mission. The album's ten tracks read like a love letter to the American songbook and the rowdy, cosmopolitan world that produced it. There are Tin Pan Alley chestnuts – George and Ira Gershwin's "Oh, Lady Be Good," Isham Jones and Gus Kahn's "It Had to Be You," and Walter Donaldson and Kahn's "Love Me or Leave Me" – alongside New Orleans firepower in Earl King's "Big Chief" and the Fats Waller co-write "Ain't Misbehavin'."
Good News follows the Sardines' acclaimed Banned Jazz project, which debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2024 and celebrated joy as an act of resistance. Where Banned Jazz was a history lesson delivered as a party, Good News is something simpler and more necessary: the thing itself. Hot jazz. Stride piano. Brass. A voice from another era landing squarely in this one.
HOLIDAY STOMP
Jazz revivalists the Hot Sardines throw a raucous yuletide extravaganza inspired by classic holiday films (such as White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life) and timeless classics, with hat-tips to Louis Armstrong, Edith Piaf, Duke Ellington and beyond such as: “Mistletoe and Holly,” “Le Noël de la Rue,” “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” “Blue Christmas,” “Christmas Blues,” “White Christmas,” “Please Come Home for Christmas,” and more.
SYMPHONY
BANNED JAZZ: HOW AMERICA’S MUSIC CHANGED THE WORLD
Nearly 100 years ago, jazz—that most American art form, with its joyous message of cultural, racial, and sexual freedom—was viewed by many as the devil’s music, a force that would bring down civilization. The new show from powerhouse jazz revivalists and storytellers the Hot Sardines recounts how forces in the U.S. and Europe tried (and failed) to suppress the music of Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Benny Goodman and more, weaving vivid historical vignettes—of dancehall raids, black-market recordings, and, in Nazi Germany, laws that made playing (or even hearing) jazz a punishable offense—into an electrifying live-music experience. Banned Jazz—which debuted as part of Carnegie Hall's Fall of the Weimar Republic Festival in spring 2024, selling out within hours—celebrates the unifying power of music and joy as an act of resistance, and will resonate with anyone reading the headlines today. THS co-founder and frontwoman Elizabeth Bougerol’s rallying cry “These are times that need live music” has never felt truer.
VIVE LE JAZZ! A MUSICAL JOURNEY FROM PARIS TO NEW ORLEANS
Join Parisian vocalist Elizabeth Bougerol and New York pianist-bandleader Evan Palazzo on a joyous trip through France’s love affair with (and enduring influence on) jazz! Finally, after a decade of “simply phenomenal” (The Times UK) shows from Montreal to Newport with 70 million Spotify streams, a sold-out 2024 Carnegie Hall debut and a fifth weeklong residency at Birdland, powerhouse jazz revivalists The Hot Sardines have brought their unique French-American sound to symphony stages alongside the Boston Pops, the Cincinnati Pops, the Seattle Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and many other esteemed orchestras. The Sardines celebrate gallic icons from Django Reinhardt to Edith Piaf, put their own spin on the Great American Songbook’s enduring tributes to the City of Lights, and follow jazz’s French roots to New Orleans, bringing brass-heavy bon temps party into the aisles.
PRESS:
“One of the best jazz bands in New York”
Forbes
“They’ve assembled a unique repertoire, and a sound and style that are distinctly their own”
Vanity Fair
“Not many bands have seized the postmillennial early-jazz spotlight with as much gusto as The Hot Sardines.”
Nate Chinen, WBGO
“Potent and assured”
The New York Times
“Swings like hell”
WBGO
“Post-modern self-awareness and verve”
Boston Globe
“Musical deftness topped by great showmanship…a big party”
JazzTimes
“Leaders of New York’s jazz revival”
CBS
“Consistently electrifying live”
PopMatters
“One of the most delightfully energetic bands on New York’s ‘hot’ music scene”
DownBeat
“They’re not a band. They’re a movement.”
Max Tucci, LA Talk Radio
“A revelation”
Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center
