A CD recording of our August 2007 concert at Music Mountain has arrived and is now available. The concert featured the amazing Jim Fryer on trombone, and Bob Price, the "Banjo Crackerjack", along with Fred, Russ, Bill, Art, and Bob Bequillard. There are sixteen tunes on this CD, including Memphis Blues, Hiawatha, Two Sleepy People, Blue & Broken-Hearted, Bob Price's famous "Lover" medley, Jim's inimitable version of Ory's Creole Trombone, and ten others.
(Click on the image at the right for details about the recording and a downloadable sample track.)
A treasure just released from the GJB archives features Noel Kaletsky, Dirck Spicer and
Howard Alden
on guitar. Recorded at the Millpond Taverne on New Year's day in 1984, this has to be the swingingest session we ever recorded. (Click on the image at the right for details about the recording and a downloadable sample track.)
Good News from Florida:
We have just learned that the GJB is being invited back to the Suncoast Jazz Festival in Clearwater Beach, November 21-23, 2008. Watch our
"Upcoming Events" page for more info as it becomes available.
Read all about the resounding success of the SUGARFOOT JAZZ BAND, (also known as the Great Connecticut Youth Band) pictured at the right.
The band's first CD was released at the jazz festival in the summer of 2007. Click on the photo at the right for more information. RECENT PHOTOS: (SLIDESHOW)
(For best viewing, press the "F11" key. Press it again before closing the show.)
MORE PHOTOS: (SLIDESHOW) (For best viewing, press the "F11" key. Press it again before closing the slide show.)
We have reorganized the "download" section of this website; there are more than a dozen sample tracks from our various Galvanized Jazz Band CDs that you can download for free in full-length versions OR
as 30-second clips. All of those sound files are now stored in the same place and in the same MP3 format for your convenience.
Thanks to the famous
Vigorito Voodoo we enjoyed good weather for almost all of our outdoor performances again last summer, as in previous years.
The University of New Hampshire has issued a new CD called "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" with 15 tracks of wonderful jazz from its on-campus Traditional Jazz Series, now in its 27th year. All sales proceeds will go to the Hurricane Katrina victims through the MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund and the American Library Association Katrina Relief Fund. The 15 tracks include performances by Doc Cheatham, the Paramount Jazz Band with Jeff Hughes and Jimmy Mazzy, Dick Hyman, the Galvanized Jazz Band (with George Masso, Spiegle Willcox and Dave Huxtable) John Clark's Wolverine Jazz Band with Tom Boates, Butch Thompson and Eli Newberger, Vince Giordano's Night Hawks with Peter Ecklund and Herb Gardner, the New Black Eagles, Bob Wilber, Jim Fryer and Jeff Barnhart, Craig Ball's White Heat Swing Orchestra, Dave McKenna, Bud Freeman, Vic Dickenson, and Peanuts Hucko. Wow! -This CD can be ordered from the UNH Library Website. You can also order your copy by phone or by email from Steve Cooper at 603-862-2714.
We hope you like the new look of this website, designed for us by Dave Pratt, one of our long-time fans.
