The Smarts: Uncategorizable and incomparable.
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The Smarts are a jazz-ish quartet that defies any easy category. As the house band for Minnesota Public Radio’s In The Loop, they wrote songs on everything from environmentalism to Internet love to winter solstice to Kim Jong Il. As current house band for St. Paul’s Sample Night Live variety show, you can watch the repertoire evolve every month.
Catchy hooks, well-crafted lyrics, and four-part vocal harmonies give that “Smartsy” feel, even as the tunes hop from jam-band to jazz to soul to country and back again. Just to keep things interesting, The Smarts are constantly trading lead vocal duties and instruments.
Come see the band Minnesota Monthly calls “smooth,” “crafty,” “witty” and “cool.”
The Smarts are:
Joe Weismann: Electric and stand-up bass, guitar, vocals
Jimmy Kennedy: Keys, guitar, vocals
Morris Engel: Drums, vocals
Jeff Horwich: Sax, harmonica, flute, guitar, mando, uke, etc. etc… vocals