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September 2018
Reuben Ristrom Quintet
With over 40 years as a musician, guitarist Reuben Ristrom’s experience includes night clubs, jazz festivals, concerts, shows, recording sessions, strolling ensembles, solo guitar or banjo and more… His styles include Dixieland, mainstream jazz, swing, standards, Latin, as well as a dose of vintage rock ‘n’ roll. Reuben’s son, vocalist Dan Ristrom, has his own Jazz project with his father and his own Funk/soul band, The Big Throwdown. In addition to this father/son combo, also performing will be twin cities…
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Milwaukee Connection
Founded by the late Chuck Hedges, the Milwaukee Connection is a swing group with a style that is a creative extension of the hot swing and mainstream era with the classic instrumentation of the Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton sound. The group pays tribute to Hedges’ spirit and music. Featuring some of the Midwest’s best jazz musicians, the Milwaukee Connection is known for its hard driving rhythm section and tight ensemble melodic lines. This will be their third MJS concert…
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Dixie Doodlers
The Dixie Doodlers are a top rated Dixieland Jazz Band whose musicians strive for perfection to create music with bright melody, awesome harmony and energetic rhythm. Their incredible repertoire consists of more than 546 tunes. They are multi-instrument talented musicians, occasionally switching instruments, who love to entertain. The band brings the original Dixieland tunes back to life and provide their audiences with some history about the songs they play. They work from the original recordings of the teens, 1920s and…
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