A major jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist in the 1920s, Jimmy Dorsey co-led the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with younger brother Tommy during 1934-35 until a blowup
Tom Hook is best known as a fluent and good-humored stride pianist and singer. In his career he was a founding member of the New
Cabin in the Sky Hendrik Meurkens, chromatic harmonica; Bill Cunliffe, piano Height Advantage (hendrikmuerkens.com) Music from the Heart Roger Davidson Quartet featuring Hendrik Meurkens Soundbrush
Roseanna Vitro Tell Me The Truth Skyline Records An open commentary on current affairs and a return to her Southern roots, Tell me The Truth
Most of the trad players in New Orleans seem to cycle in and out of bands and projects every few years, often juggling several at
They have a Friday night gig at Three Muses, their album was recorded at The Spotted Cat and engineered by John Dixon of the Shotgun
Ce Biguine! by Charlie Halloran When I’m preparing for a review I often write the artist for a comment. If I’m lucky I get a
I’ve recently reviewed two traditional jazz albums featuring the distinctive vocals of Louisa Jones. (Man Overboard Qunitet, The Cable Street Rag Band.) She is accompanied
Press Start! by The 8-Bit Big Band Charlie Rosen wrangled dozens of musicians into a big band to perform quality arrangements of classic video game
Everyone knows all the cool kids are in band, but if you needed proof this album is it. 24 or more active musicians from New
Cuphead is a video game released in September 2017 that has already sold more than three million copies. The game has a vintage feel reminiscent
Duke Ellington and his orchestra were featured on a series of weekly radio programs during 1945-46 that became known as The Treasury Shows. While the
Swing lives! While the big band era ended in 1946, Swing (the noun rather than the verb) never went away. Whether it was the mainstream
From Connecticut, the Galvanized Jazz Band has performed regularly since its formation back in 1971, and the group is still active today. Recently the ensemble
DON SUHOR Although Don Suhor (1932-2003) worked steadily in New Orleans (mostly as a clarinetist) for decades, one can be forgiven for not recognizing his
In recent years, the married couple Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi has often performed as a duo on one piano. While that setting shows listeners
Dust by Cable Street Rag Band Had this album been available twenty years ago I am certain that I would still be listening to it
Frog and Henry consider themselves a New Orleans based band, and they have fine reasons to do so. As a collective, they’ve included members from Tuba
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
