Buena Vista Jazz Band Xmas Show! at Which Way West? Sunday Concert Series at Bird & Beckett Books & Records

Why are they called “Buena Vista?”
Why, it’s just ’cause they look so damned good!

And they play good too!

Modeled on Eddie Condon’s band that held forth in New York in the 30s and 40s, the Buena Vista Jazz Band plays the original American chamber music, birthed by black musicians in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century– a musical tradition that traveled up the big muddy Mississippi to Chicago and flooded across the continent, sailed the seas, resonates still. Syncopated, intricate, freewheeling and joyful.

The Buena Vista Jazz Band features:...

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Why are they called “Buena Vista?”
Why, it’s just ’cause they look so damned good!

And they play good too!

Modeled on Eddie Condon’s band that held forth in New York in the 30s and 40s, the Buena Vista Jazz Band plays the original American chamber music, birthed by black musicians in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century– a musical tradition that traveled up the big muddy Mississippi to Chicago and flooded across the continent, sailed the seas, resonates still. Syncopated, intricate, freewheeling and joyful.

The Buena Vista Jazz Band features:

Don Neely on clarinet
John Hunt on trombone
Noel Weidkamp on trumpet
Si Perkoff on piano
Duncan James on guitar
Al Obidinski on bass
Greg Gotelli on drums

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