Mike Austin & Ben Banti
7th & Swing
7th & Swing features two professional musicians who love jazz. Ben Banti and Mike Austin make up this versatile duo that is heavily influenced by the music of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and the standards you know and love. Comfortable at highbrow events, gritty bars, and most everything in between, this classy jazz duo is able to tailor music to your needs having played at venues and events such as Cannon Center, The Peabody Hotel, and The Orpheum Theater.
Intersection is a pleasurable listening journey through the artistic Jazz/Blues minds of Ben Banti and Mike Austin. It covers jazz standards like Don't Get Around Much Anymore to How High The Moon and Little Sunflower. Their stylings also shape some old favorites like Fly Me to the Moon, The Girl From Ipanema and My Favorite Things with a few original compositions thrown in for good measure. However, they did not act alone. This project actually was a "class project" of the Audio and Business departments of Visible Music College in Memphis, TN.