Bands
Gypsy Roots
Gyspy Roots specializes in th
e genre known as jazz manouche. For the uninitiated, their sound is very reminiscent of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France of the 1930s featuring Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. The main trio consists of guitarists Thomas Wakefield and James Beard, and violinist Larry Lyles. The Jammin' lineup will also feature bassist Rusty Farmer, and accordianist Bob Jacobs. Gypsy Roots regularly plays in and around Richmond and just recently released their long, long-awaited debut CD.
The Swiss Swank Account
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Led by trombonist Pete Anderson, Swiss Swank Account is an outfit whose repertoire consists primarily of the music of the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras. This year we will feature the sextet and last year's sensation on vocals, Rudy Faulkner. Thanks to an excellent undergraduate jazz music program at Virginia Commonwealth University, Pete is able to get some top-notch personnel from right here in Richmond..
Doctors of Jazz
The Doctors of Jazz is a Tra
d Jazz/Dixieland band that specializes in the traditional early New Orleans jazz typified by the Joe "King" Oliver Creole Jazz Band from the early 1920s and its later West Coast reincarnation, Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band. The band was established in 1983 by an enthusiastic group of professors at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. It has completed seven European tours, performs regularly around central Virginia, and quickly become a favorite of local dancers who frequented their monthly gigs at the now defunct Upper East Side Jazz Lounge.
