"Bouncing Around" with the Foggy Bottom Classic Jazz Band

New to the Trad. Jazz Radio playlist is a CD from the Foggy Bottom Classic Jazz Band, from Gothenborg, Sweden. The members of the band are Anders Linde (cornet) Thomas Wallin (second cornet and vocal) Johnny Korner (clarinet, soprano sax and alto sax) Peter Trägardh (trombone) Hans Broden (piano) Janet Grootoonk (banjo and vocal) Peter Svedholm (brass bass) and Lars-Gunnar Röök (drums).
The CD is a pleasant mixture of Classic Jazz with some very rare titles making a welcome addition to the music on TJR. They are:-Room rent blues, Trouble in mind, Bouncing around, Buffalo blues, Snake rag, Papa De-da-da, Doctor Jazz, Temptation blues, Joe Turner blues, Sobbin' blues, I'm going away to wear you off my mind, Georgia bo bo, Down by the riverside, Cushion foot stomp, Terrible blues and Cake walking babies from home.
The CD has very thorough background notes on the tunes but unfortunately no contact or ordering information was provided so it is best to have a "google" about on this or email Janet Grootoonk (the bands pretty lady banjoist) via svenssonjonas@telia.com to get your copy of "Bouncing Around".

Hot Lips...more good music!

The newest CD to be aired on Trad. Jazz Radio is by the Münich based jazzband "Hot Lips". The CD is well produced and professionaly recorded and a good level of musicianship is shown throughout by all band members.
Titles on the "...more good music" CD (which was recorded in 1997) are:- Take the A. train, Cotton club stomp, Livery stable blues, Sweet Lorraine, Oh, you sweet thing! South Rampart Street parade, Black and tan fantasy, Avalon, Wolverine blues, Just a gigolo, The chant, Tollgate blues, Jungle nights in Harlem, Margie, Kansas City stomps and Sideway. The band consists of Bob Strauss (sax and clarinet) Michael Etzel (cornet, vocals and arrangements) Hannes Eikhorst (trombone) Wolfgang E. Ott (banjo) Otmar Dicker (bass) and Heini Buckenmaier (drums).
The CD cover did not state whether the band has a website and the liner notes are in German language only, however the contact telephone number for you to purchase the CD is Whoopee Records, (0049 for Germany) 08142 20112.

Papa Joe's Jazzmen, 20 Jahre Dixieland.

New to the playlist on TJR this time (which was just upgraded to 150MB!) is the house band from Cologne's famous "Em Streckstrumpf" jazz bar, Papa Joe's Jazzmen. The band itself consists of Didi Zander (trumpet and vocals) Wolfgang Kreth (banjo and guitar) Klaus Wegener (sax and clarinet) Reiner Polz (drums) Weil Derix (trombone) and Michael Schöneich (double bass). The CD is well produced and contains many of the standards one would play in a public bar but the arrangements and musicality of the band is extremely good and worthy of merit. The titles on this CD,which celebrates 20 years of playing in the jazzbar, are Bourbon Street parade, The man I love, Honeysuckle rose, Shimme sha wobble, Rondo ala turk, Flat foot floogie, Always, Ory's creole trombone, Down home rag, African queen, What a wonderful world and Heebie Jeebies. For more information on the band and CDs available go to www.papa-joes-jazzmen.de or email ZCordi@aol.com.
The Em Strickstrumpf jazzbar in Cologne(Köln), Germany has jazz every night of the week and can be found in the "Altstadt" - one street in from the river Rhein, directly in the tourist walking street area. They have a website in English and German at www.papajoes.de and welcome visitors and musicians worldwide.