Vintage Music with Style: Dick Oxtot’s Golden Age Jazz Band, 1974-94

In this Article: Location recordings, rare photos, unissued studio tracks and a radio broadcast explore Dick Oxtot’s Golden Age Jazz Band. His talent for mentoring and presenting women instrumentalists and singers is highlighted. "Oxtot has been playing in the San Francisco Bay Area since the days of World War II. He has been a pivot around which an astonishingly large collection of musicians have revolved.  Oxtot has been playing a few nights a week in little clubs and big ballparks in every conceivable context.” -- Phil Elwood, from liner notes for the 1980 Golden Age Jazz Band album Dick Oxtot  (1918-2001) was a bandleader who proffered “Vintage Music with Style” on both sides of San Francisco Bay. A creative force in Frisco Traditional and Revival Jazz, he was a bandleader, excellent rhythm banjo player, multi-instrumentalist and fine singer. For at least two decades Dick Oxtot’s Golden Age Jazz Band  hosted a continually rotating roster of outstanding Bay Area Classic Jazz musicians. His ensembl
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