James Conway, who plays trumpet and cornet for the Ten Bells Rag Band, was kind enough to inform me that Limehouse is “an old dockland
One of the top vintage jazz bands performing regularly these days in New Orleans, the Shotgun Jazz Band consists of singer-trumpeter Marla Dixon, her husband
As might be expected this is an album by and for people who really love their banjos. The participants each spend a portion of the liner
If you are wondering what that says it is something like “Wojtek Kaminski’s Swing Workshop Forty Years On.” The Polish small band Swing Workshop is
Danny Bacher received rave reviews for his 2016 debut album, Swing That Music, on which he covered a variety of tracks by the three Louis’-
An intriguing question in social history is why creative explosions happen when and where they do. What was it about Switzerland during the Great War
Our October issue features a long interview with violin phenom Daisy Castro. She’s developed as a musician, and as a person, since startling the Jazz
Live at The Studio was recorded at a popular venue for Swing events in Nashville called, you guessed it, The Studio. Lots of planning went
This is the second studio effort from a hot swing ensemble built on the collaboration between reed superstar Ewan Bleach and classically trained violinist Thomas
I recently read a column Tex Wyndham wrote for our predecessor paper The West Coast Rag back in 1990 lamenting the lack of female instrumentalists
While the double-CD Ain’t It Grand? from the Glenn Crytzer Orchestra was covered previously in The Syncopated Times, it is worthy of further discussion. Some
The release of Ain’t it Grand, a double CD of original and classic swing material is a milestone achievement in the resurgent popularity of prewar
The Rhythm Gamblers lean on the mature and experienced side of the swing continuum. Not because they average older—gray heads are common in the hippest
Stretching to eleven members and having survived for over a decade Lithuania’s Rhythm Junkies are as much a jazz collective as a traditional band. Think
Hot jazz in Europe draws closer to ragtime and marching band presentation because from polkas to mazurka’s the brass ensemble lived longer in public life
The Swing Shouters of Tours, France, grew out of the relationship between a dance school, a studio, and an association called Swing and Shout. You
In July, as part of a Catching up with New Orleans series of reviews, I strongly recommended an ongoing recording project by a product of
Her Connections Haruka Kikuchi is a 31-year-old native of Japan who, since relocating in 2014, has been accepted into the New Orleans scene so readily
Aurora Nealand is an artist with a creative sensibility that she duly brings to her music. Her parents exposed her to the music of the
Coming off an extensive tour in June and July of Lindy events all over the Northeast, Chelsea Reed and the Fair Weather Five have settled
Miss Myra leads with guitar and vocals in this busy Twin Cities trad band. They have 16 appearances scheduled in September, three on one day.
Cat’n Around by Cait and the Critters After agreeing to bring her band to a gig, Cait Jones suddenly found herself needing a band. A few
The Gentlemen & Gangsters are a hard-swinging sextet of true professionals with a firm rooting in the hot bands on the cusp of Swing Era.
It was St. Joseph’s Night 2006, a group of volunteers set off from the New Orleans suburb of Arabi in search of Mardi Gras Indians.
