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Southtown
Strummers
VESTED
INTEREST
The
Southtown Strummers have been performing their unique style of toe-tapping banjo
music for over 25 years! "Vested Interest" is a retrospective representing tunes
developed by the band in four different decades - the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and
the new millennium! ...more
San
Francisco Starlight Orchestra
CHEERFUL LITTLE
EARFUL
With their
second Stomp Off label CD, the San Francisco Starlight Orchestra indulges us
once again in some delightful nostalgia - as they recreate the music of the
great dance bands of the 1920's - with particular attention to the "symphonic
jazz" of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. ...more
CHARLESTON IS THE BEST DANCE AFTER
ALL
The San
Francisco Starlight Orchestra's first recording project is "Charleston Is The
Best Dance After All." The tune selection is a little more varied than on the
Stomp Off CDs. ...more
Fourth
Street Five
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
The
Three Plectrums
ENCORE
The
Three Plectrums reunited on the night of February 15, 2003 ..
and what a night it turned out to be! It had been several
years since the famous plectrum banjoists Larry Kennedy, Kurt Abell
and Dave Frey were able to play together at the place where "it
all began."
But, here they were - together again. ...more
Jazz
Salvation Company
GREATEST HITS SO
FAR
The Jazz
Salvation Company, a six-piece ensemble style band, is specifically recognized
in Tex Wyndham's book "Texas Shout: How Dixieland Jazz Works" as a prime example
of a 1920's style white New Orleans jazz band. ...more
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