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February 2019
New Century Dance Orchestra
Based in Fond du Lac, the New Century Dance Orchestra recreates the jazzy dance band sounds from the roaring twenties into the swing style of the 1930s at the second concert of the Madison Jazz Society's year-long 35th anniversary celebration. The ten-piece band is reminiscent of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and the earliest music of Duke Ellington – the generation of “big band” music that preceded the swing era. The band uses arrangements from the music libraries of three bands…
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Red Rose Ragtime Band
The Red Rose Ragtime Band performed at the very first Madison Jazz Society concert in August of 1984 and returns to participate in the Society's year-long 35th anniversary celebration. The band was formed in the early 1980's in the Chicago area with the express purpose of playing a musical repertoire reflecting almost every aspect of early jazz music, including ragtime. Today, the Red Rose performs perhaps the widest variety of traditional jazz sounds of any band in America. No matter…
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Sweet Sheiks
Bringing a little bit of the Big Easy to the Brew City, Sweet Sheiks is a Milwaukee based band inspired by music of the teens, twenties, and thirties. With a mix of early jazz, vintage pop tunes, delta blues and originals, they shake the dust off the antiquated sound they've revived. Resonator guitar, banjo, tuba, violin, trombone, clarinet, washboard and musical saw are instruments you may see in this rotating group of musicians." This group, making its first MJS appearance,…
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