CRUSTACEA JAZZ BAND

Crustacea Jazz Band plays danceable and swinging tunes in the New Orleans jazz style, tunes popular between about 1900 and 1935 whose melodies are often still familiar.

San Luis Obispo audiences like and respond to this music first because it is upbeat, happy, humorous and romantic; and second because the creative act is happening right in front of the audience: Right Here, Right NOW!

In this “old fashioned” Jazz, the players improvise and develop variations around a familiar melody line and unique variations result.

Over a hundred years ago this “small band improvised jazz style” originated in New Orleans. Throughout the twentieth century this music worked its way up the rivers to Memphis, St. Louis, and Chicago, and was spread by great players to New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco and to all the towns in between.

Crustacea’s repertoire showcases this original music, this "Music of America," as well as rags and gospel music, blues and early pop tunes--all played in the New Orleans jazz style.