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| JAZZ
PIRATES of the
Southern Archipelago outside Gothenburg, Sweden, started
in
2004. The
personnel is Lasse
Collin, clarinet, Mathias
Gustavsson, banjo, Leif Melldahl, bass,
and Felix Collin,
drums. We are walking in the footsteps of the many great small bands playing New Orleans music in the early days, especially with a clarinet in the lead. The trios, quartets and quintets of Sidney Bechet, Albert Nicholas, Johnny Dodds, George Lewis, Jimmie Noone and others is a special genre of the classical jazz and these are our inspiration. The tunes we play come from the whole field of the New Orleans repertoire; old goodies from back then, classic dixieland tunes, caribbean tunes, blues, marches, hymns and gospels. Most of all we like playing tunes in the creole/caribbean style and rhythm, to us representing the more genuine African roots of jazz music. The local interest for this kind of unmodern music is rather limited, but using the Internet as our stage, the audience for this often charming and happily swinging music maybe is a little bit bigger. We play what we like and want, and if you are one of those few crazy lovers of old small band jazz, you're very welcome to enjoy our site and the music we put out here. |
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