They bring a fresh and exhilarating approach to traditional jazz tunes, the players are all individually excellent, and together produce a terrific sound…
Carl Sonny Leyland has the boogie in his bones! Leyland grew up in Southhampton, England, where the rhythm and sounds of boogie-woogie piano captured his imagination…
Chris Bradley and Friends
Chris, A Native Californian, started his music career in high school and college Jazz Orchestras– Including marching bands, also playing with Many big bands…
The Crescent Katz’s off-the-cuff, no-rules, no-arrangements style hearkens back to the days when Sherwood “Shakey” Johnson was the king of pizza, and the emperor of fun. You’ll leave every show tappin’ your toes and smelling faintly like pepperoni.
Get caught up in the infectious joy of the Swing Era as Dawn and her sextet entertain and romance you with their elegant, high spirited interpretations of classic jazz and swing standards…
The current EDJB is led by Hal Smith (playing washboard for an authentic El Dorado sound). Most of the musicians are multi-instrumentalists and all are bandleaders.
Josh Duffee was born in Louis Bellson’s hometown of Moline, Illinois, and has resided across the river in Bix Beiderbecke’s hometown of Davenport, Iowa, for the past 15+ years…
The PBB is an Authentic Britsh Style Brass Band Featuring traditional Brass Band Favourites, American Folk Songs, Rags, Marches and Musical Theatre selections.
Ken & Flossie, Mammoth Festival Directors, had this fun idea that they slid by Gary Ryan, who called Phil, who called Tom, and “The Raiders” were born…
San Lyon is a swing jazz quartet based in Los Angeles. They have been playing together since 2019, specializing in jazz music from the early 20th century with a Parisian gypsy flare…
Seattle Trad is a traditional jazz band whose purpose is to honor the memory of great musicians who were members of one or more of these Pacific Northwest trad jazz bands…
Sierra Stompers were formed in 2023 to celebrate California traditional jazz and have quickly earned a reputation as “The Hottest Band on the West Coast!
In 1987 Tom and Eddie were founding members of the Black Dog Jazz Band, an association that led over the years to appearances at most of the major Traditional Jazz festivals in the US…
Paolo Alderighi, originally from Milan, is one of Italy’s foremost jazz pianists. He earned his degree in Piano Performance from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Milan in 2000…
Clint Baker (born January 27, 1971, in Mountain View, California) is an American traditional jazz musician performing on cornet, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, tuba, string bass, and drums…
Born in Pasadena, California, and raised in nearby Costa Mesa, Dan Barrett began playing the trombone at the age of eleven, and the cornet shortly thereafter. In high school he formed his first group, the Back Bay Jazz Band…
Dave Bennett
Dave Bennett doesn’t fit the mold. For starters, you don’t find many jazz clarinet players who name Alice Cooper, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Chris Isaak among their influences…
Katie Cavera has made a name for herself on the West Coast and in Europe playing 20’s and 30’s classic jazz. She is a rhythm guitar specialist in the style of Freddie Green…
It was 1964 in upstate New York when Danny Coots began playing drums at the tender age of 6 years old. Since then, he has studied with Nick Baffaro, Rich Holly, Alan Koffman …
His growing reputation in the jazz community soon earned him work and recordings with such luminaries as Rick Fay, Bucky Pizzarelli, Johnny Varro, Dick Hyman…
Ken Hall
Ken began playing accordion at age 5 but began playing stride piano after purchasing a player piano at age 13…
Hailed in the press as one of the most entertaining concert pianists on stage today, Frederick Hodges has established a reputation specializing in late romantic music as well as Ragtime, Broadway, and Hollywood musicals…
Brian Holland is an internationally renowned pianist, composer, recording artist, and entertainer who has enjoyed a music career spanning more than four decades…
Born and raised in England, T.J. first began performing with his family jazz band. Finding work with local groups in the north of England and touring with Newcastle based group Rob Heron and The Tea-Pad Orchestra..
Steve Pikal (upright bass) has been playing music professionally for many years and is highly regarded as a first call bass player from the Minnesota Twin Cities area jazz scene…
Dave Stuckey has been swinging his way through Los Angeles for a couple of decades now, but his musical adventures as guitar player and drummer go back farther than that…
Stephanie Trick
Stephanie Trick “has come to practically dominate the stride piano field,” notes reviewer Jack Rummel. Harlem stride piano…
Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi
Pioneers in the use of four-hands piano in jazz, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread success with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie woogie traditions…
