MIKE FLAHERTY’S DIXIELAND DIRECT JAZZ BAND is an exciting and energetic Washington, DC, based band that specializes in traditional New Orleans Dixieland music but its versatility encompasses other ...

Dixieland jazz in top form - and with a few twists Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes April 15, 2015 How do you keep Dixieland jazz from being mere repertory music? Trombonist Herb Bruce's approach ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid ...

CHILLICOTHE― Ohio's first and third capital is home to one of the oldest Dixieland jazz bands in the country, The Goosetown Astonishers― a band that is historic and unique, much like Chillicothe. The ...

Co-chairman John Neville is looking forward to hearing the Dixieland jazz bands on the program. “We’ve got 14 of the greatest Dixieland bands in Southern California,” said Neville, who organized a ...

New Orleans trumpet player and composer Jimmy LaRocca died over the weekend. Jimmy‘s father, also a trumpet player, Nick LaRocca, was the leader of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first recorded ...

Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying ...