Since its inception in 2009, as a jazz band (formerly known as the “Dead Man Street Orchestra” playing old time string mountain music) busking on
As heard on this disc, the Chicago Cellar Boys is not your typical “trad” or “dixie jam” band. Having evolved from another group (The Fat
The question posed by this album is “What would the great cornetist Bix Beiderbecke have sounded like had he stopped ruining his health and abilities
Most readers of The Syncopated Times are familiar with clarinet/alto saxophonist Billy Novick from his long association with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band of
The band Tuba Skinny (name inspired, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, by a local musician billed as Tuba Fats) was formed as a loose New Orleans street band
The late English trombonist and bandleader Chris Barber was known but not a star performer in the US. On the other hand, he and his
