West End Jazz Band April 22, 2009

The West End Jazz Band has, since 1977, recreated the classic music that typifies the twenties and thirties using original arrangements and instrumentation that is true to the style of the era. The repertoire of West End consists of a broad representation of the music of this golden age, hot and sweet dance and jazz. Featured are the pure jazz numbers, the nonsense songs, the up-tempo tunes and also the beautiful ballads. This was the type of music for dancing and for those zany times when youth ran wild and made whoopee; songs such as 'Roodles,' 'The Flippity Flop,' 'My Cutey's Due at Two to Two To-Day, and the beautiful ballads like 'Out Where the Moonbeams are Born,' and 'Now That Summer is Gone.' Their book is full of great standards, obscure songs, as well as a number of straight dance medleys that reflect the romantic and sweet side of that era.