Tag Archives: New Orleans Jazz Revival

For almost 2 decades, the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Starlight Orchestra continues to be making magic within the ballrooms of California making use of their faithful making of orchestrations through the jazz age. Within the hands from the outfit’s music artists and performers, the Roaring ’20s stand out once again. …

Among the great Dixieland trumpeters, Crazy Costs Davison had a colorful and emotional design that ranged from sarcasm to sentimentality with a lot of growls and shakes. His unforeseen keeping high records was a showcase of his solos and his solid personality place him far prior to the competition. Within …

John Gill is among the best stride and trad jazz pianists of his era. He started playing a little toy piano like a youngsters and became a lover of the English pop pianist Russ Conway. Apart from some classical teaching, Gill was mainly self-taught. He created a two piano duo …

Dr. Michael Light is really a multifaceted, multi-talented New Orleans-based musician who hasn’t received nearly enough publicity beyond his local Crescent Town. A musicologist, jazz historian, educator, clarinet participant, and bandleader, Light and his music group make an annual visit to New York’s Community Vanguard jazz membership to execute on …

b. Vincent Wayne Giordano, 11 March 1952, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Influenced by hearing information Giordano soon required a serious desire for music and by age 15 was playing expertly on string bass and, unusually, brass bass and bass saxophone. He previously not only created a liking for devices on …

The Firehouse Five As well as Two began as an amateur Dixieland band mostly made up of cartoon animators through the Disney Studios. Their spontaneous periods (led by trombonist Ward Kimball) had been so successful which they began recording once and for all Period Jazz in 1949 and quickly became …

Interpretative singer who produced series of regular and ballad-laden albums in past due ’50s, early ’60s, including 1 ’59 session for Dot with Benny Carter, Herbie Harper, Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne one of the supporting cast.

During a time when most female singers who interpret music in the 1920s run into as dated “red hot mamas,” camp, or satirical, Banu Gibson practically stands alone. She performs music in the 1920s and ’30s artistically, but inside the boundaries from the idiom, offering fresh lifestyle and enthusiasm to …

The stride and golf swing piano tradition of the first 20th century is preserved with the playing of pianist and musicologist Adam Dapogny. Regarding his little combo, the Chicago Jazz Music group — offering Jon-Eric Kellso (trumpet), Mike Karoub (bass), Russ Whitman (reeds), Kim Cusack (reeds), Chris Smith (trombone), Fishing …

The Countdown Quartet are something of the NEW YORK indie supergroup, including past and present members from the Tonebenders, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and far less-known quantities like Six String Move, Knockdown Culture, and Ultra Fox. Shaped by trombonist Dave Wright and bassist Steve Grothmann from the Tonebenders when that music …