The Fourth Street Five Jazz Band has been performing traditional jazz in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1990. They have become very well known for their hard-driving New Orleans style of jazz. The band enjoys playing tunes originally made famous by Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence William's Blue Five, Bix Beiderbecke and others from the 1920's and '30's. The frontline musicians have the ability to switch instyruments during a tune, making the band sound like more than just five members. The Fourth Street Five has also been known to creatively perform a few contemporary tunes in a New Orleans jazz style. The combination makes these recordings uniquely special.
POSITIVELY
FOURTH STREET
The Fourth Street Five's "Positively Fourth Street" CD is a hard driving blend of familiar and obscure traditional jazz tunes from a band that lives "out on the edge." When listening to the Fourth Street Five, Golden Eagle Jazz Band leader Dick Shooshan said, "There's no margin for error in this band!" ...more
HITTIN'
ON ALL FIVE!
Rolling into town in Robert Young's Studebaker truck, here comes the Fourth Street Five with their second CD - Hittin' On All Five. The band showcases a wide variety of tunes played in the classic jazz style with a few little twists in the road along the way. ...more
