McKinney's Cotton Pickers

Early jazz was not a matter of three or four bands with monster soloists playing in a vacuum. Read More

Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra soaks up the music of the 1920s on Hothouse Stomp , a recording dedicated to the sounds of the era out of Chicago and Harlem. Read More

Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra soaks up the music of the 1920s on Hothouse Stomp , a recording dedicated to the sounds of the era out of Chicago and Harlem. Read More

When most of us think of The Jazz Age, we tend to think of the small Dixieland-style ensembles of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. Read More