Jeff Stockham Revives 20s Stock Arrangements for Dancers

Syracuse, New York’s hottest trumpeter is taking a stroll down the sweet side of the street. Brass-instrument Brahmin Jeff Stockham—a member of the Salt City Jazz Collective, the Jazz Police, the Bear Cat Jass Band, and the CNY Jazz Orchestra—has formed a new Jazz Age-style dance band, The Stock Market Swing Orchestra. The band makes its debut Saturday, June 4, at “Forever Hotel Syracuse: A Historic Gala.” The eleven-piece ensemble includes some of the best musicians in Central New York, and recreates the swinging sounds of the 1920s and 1930s, at the Hotel Syracuse (a Salt City landmark since 1924), which will soon be renamed the Marriott Syracuse Downtown. “We will be using vintage band fronts and vintage mutes, and I will be playing vintage instruments of the era,” said Stockham, who is an internationally known collector of brass instruments. “And, of course, we’ll be wearing tuxedos.” The orchestra will play original dance band arrangements from the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, including its theme song, “I’ll Be Seeing You,” a song written by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal (introduced by Tamara Drasin in the 1938 musical Right This Way) tha