THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS
Original New Orleans Jazz • United Kingdom
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The band was formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1984 by trumpeter Mike Durham. It specialises in classic hot jazz of the 1920’s (there are over 600 tunes in the band’s book), along with some of the “hot dance” tunes of the era, like The Charleston. Favourite sources include the music of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, and so on. Alternatively, with guitar and string bass rather than banjo and tuba, the Rhythm Kings can play a programme of 1930’s Swing music, featuring the works of Fats Waller and his contemporaries.
The band is well-known both nationally and internationally on the jazz club and festival circuit (over 40 festival appearances in the past five years, many of them repeat bookings) and has played in the U.S.A., France, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Holland as well as all over the U.K. Major venues played include London’s famous 100 Club, as
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