“For our performance on June 17th, at 7:30 PM at the Amador, we will be playing Traditional Jazz, also called Trad Jazz, Early Jazz, Dixieland Jazz, Hot Jazz, or New Orleans Jazz (although that term can be almost anything nowadays). We will concentrate on the black musicians who created the genre, which slowly grew in popularity once it started to be recorded and spread around the country. Many of those New Orleans musicians left the area (once the redlight district, called Storyville, was shut down) and played in Kansas City, Chicago, and New York. Through recordings and radio, the style was popular until swing and big band music took over. But there have been revivals of Trad Jazz in various parts of the country, including long-lasting festivals, and it has always hung on in Europe. In fact, in the late 1950s, the U.S. State Department put a lot of jazz musicians on tour around the world (often called ‘Jazz Ambassadors”), which greatly helped in reviving Louis Armstrong’s career.

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The members of the group all love jazz and, in particular, love the joyful and often tongue-in-cheek nature of Dixieland Jazz. A lot of our songs are also blues tunes, which reach deep back into the black experience, and of course, form the foundation for much of American music. ”