Dixieland
This Chicago Dixieland Band is one of the most unique and exciting musical attractions around today. This is a high-energy Dixieland show band led by one of the top female jazz banjoists in the country also featured on vocals.
Winner of the 2010 French Quartet Jazz Festival Battle!!!This Dixieland Jazz Band is an exciting and energetic Washington, DC, based band that specializes in traditional New Orleans Dixieland music but its versatility encompasses other styles as well, these range from the music of the swing era, to society music to the Blues.Although they perform with as many as seven musicians, the nucleus of the group is a trio. Fashioned after the Swing and Dixieland styles of Benny Goodman and Pete Fountain, this band features a clarinetist, a pianist and a drummer.
The band was formed in 2001 and since then has established a position as one of the most popular traditional jazz bands in Seattle area. Original improvisations, arrangements and a tremendous intensity in our playing have given us opportunities to perform at jazz clubs, festivals and many other public events.The band includes an authentic musical line-up – trumpet, reeds, trombone, tuba, banjo/guitar and drums.The band has won an enthusiastic reception across Northwest area, not only for their old school jazz style, but for bringing an irrepressible sense of fun and frolic to their shows.
Winner of the 2010 French Quartet Jazz Festival Battle!!!This Dixieland Jazz Band is an exciting and energetic Washington, DC, based band that specializes in traditional New Orleans Dixieland music but its versatility encompasses other styles as well, these range from the music of the swing era, to society music to the Blues.Although they perform with as many as seven musicians, the nucleus of the group is a trio. Fashioned after the Swing and Dixieland styles of Benny Goodman and Pete Fountain, this band features a clarinetist, a pianist and a drummer.
With jubilant vigor that spills from the stage to the streets, this Dixieland Band revitalizes the energy of the roots of Jazz.In paying homage to the pioneers of early 20th Century Jazz, including that of Dixieland and New Orleans, they carry the torch that was once lit by such greats as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong & Bix Beiderbeck.