Line for Linus

Example of good ol’ swinging guitar pickin’ spearheads the Amsterdam scene, while grabbing international attention with A Sinner Kissed An Angel by the Linus Eppinger / Sam Braysher Quartet. Something was in the air. Sparks, to be sure! It was Saturday, June 27 at indie haunt De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The Linus Eppinger / Sam Braysher Quartet totally burned Strouse/Adams’s Put On A Happy Face to the ground. The engine of super-swinging drum veteran Eric Ineke and beat-munching class act on bass Daryll Hall ripped and roared like Steve McQueen’s Porsche in Le Mans. Eppinger and Braysher kept up in a brand-new Lexus. Broad smiles lifted up the stage. Afterwards, Hall fist-bumped his homie Ineke. Happy Face. Not bad for a nickname. Eppinger wears a generous, eternal smile. On stage, the vivacious German globetrotter is having a ball, very contagious to say the least. Music, after all, is entertainment, isn’t it. Working in both straight-ahead jazz in various configurations and rhythm…