MUSIC: From ‘Mamma Mia!’ to gypsy jazz

  Life will go on after “Mamma Mia!” even if many of its cast members aren’t sure where it will lead after the musical closes Jan. 4 at Mandalay Bay.
  Carol Linnea Johnson, who stars as Donna, hopes her future includes more gypsy jazz. The Hot Club of Las Vegas, a side project influenced by the bouncy, finger-picking Django Reinhardt school of “world beat” jazz, launches its self-titled CD with a Friday party at Vox Wine Lounge, 2630 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway. There is no cover charge for the show that gets started around 10 p.m.
  Johnson and husband Don Burroughs, who is in the “Mamma” ensemble and executive producer of the Hot Club album, hope to stay in town. “After two years (of three in the show), I decided, ‘I think I really like it here,’ ” she says.
  She calls gypsy jazz “an emerging style” that’s being heard again in other places. “Some styles of music make their way back into popular culture,” she says. “There’s no telling where this could lead.”
  Johnson is the singer for the band that includes instrumentalists Mundo Juillerat, Chris Davis, Gabriel Santana Falcon and Marlowe Valentin.