Statesmen of Jazz was a swing jazz group started in 1994 by the American Federation of Jazz Societies.
The group performs as a sextet, but it has a rotating, all-star membership comprising about thirty musicians. The group released its first album in 1994 for Arbors Records, performed at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee in 1995, and toured Japan in 1997.[1]
When the group started, all of its members were over the age of sixty-five.[2]
Members
edit- Louie Bellson
- Bill Berry (trumpeter)
- Keter Betts
- Bob Cranshaw
- Kenny Davern
- Buddy DeFranco
- Panama Francis
- Johnny Frigo
- Wycliffe Gordon
- Al Grey
- Milt Hinton
- Red Holloway
- Jane Jarvis
- Jay Leonhart
- Eddie Locke
- Dennis Mackrel
- George Masso
- Earl May
- Ken Peplowski
- Houston Person
- Bucky Pizzarelli
- Ed Polcer
- Benny Powell
- Don Sickler
- Norman Simmons
- Carrie Smith
- Derek Smith
- Irvin Stokes
- Buddy Tate
- Clark Terry
- Warren Vache
- Johnny Varro
- Frank Wess
- Benny Waters
- Joe Wilder
- Spiegle Willcox
- Claude Williams[1][3][4]
Discography
edit- Statesmen of Jazz (Arbors, 1994)
- A Multitude of Stars (Arbors, 2004)
References
edit- ^ a b Kernfeld, Barry, ed. (2002). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 652. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "Statesmen of Jazz". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "Statesmen of Jazz - Statesmen of Jazz | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "A Multitude of Stars - Statesmen of Jazz | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
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