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Small Jazz Band
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Out of 20 votes - Similar Artists: King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton
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- Location: Cordoba, Argentina
- Genre: Jazz » New Orleans Jazz
Editor's review
New Orleans jazz goes farther down south, as this Cordoba, Argentina, hot-jazz combo tackles the sounds of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong with jaunty flair. Check Francisco F. Castillo's skillful clarinet soloing.
Biography
A traditional jazz group that began its activity at the end of the year 1981 in Cordoba City, Argentina, trying to recreate the style of the first groups of the twenties such as Joe "King" Oliver, Clarence Williams, Louis Armstrong, Sam Morgan, Johnny Dodds, "Jelly Roll" Morton and some others not as well known but not of less musical importance. The "Small Jazz Band" is made up of teachers with musical education who believe in the aesthetic and sentimental valve of this genre, perhaps the most important popular expression of this century.
Musicians:
Francisco F. Castillo, cornet and clarinet
Luis Alasino, trombone and saxophone
Alejandro Kras, banjo
Roque Celis, tuba
Javier Machado, drums and washboard
In 1991 between the months of June and September, the "Small Jazz Band" was on tour for numerous spanish stages, in Madrid, Toledo, Salamanca, Sevilla and other important cities of that country. The band travels to Europe again in february 1992, but this time to the recently united Germany. There they performed in numerous jazzclubs in Hannover, Berlin, Bremen and other urban centres of the same cultural importance, receiving the praises of the specialized criticism not only for its quality but for the orthodoxy of its interpretations showing the purest "hot" style of New Orleans.
