Black Tuesday Jazz Band

Welcome to the official Web site of the Black Tuesday Jazz Band, a professional Dixieland jazz band based in Sacramento, California. This highly entertaining jazz group is a long-time participant at the famed Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, and was performing there again to standing-room-only crowds in May, 2004. The band also performs at jazz societies, private engagements, social events, and jazz festivals throughout Northern California, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Learn all about the Black Tuesday Jazz Band. Meet the musicians and hear samples of the jazz music they play. Check the band's performance schedule, get booking information, and order their jazz CDs!

About the Black Tuesday Jazz Band

The Black Tuesday Jazz Band is made up of eight highly talented and entertaining musicians dedicated to playing New Orleans and traditional jazz music. For over 5 years, they have thrilled audiences at jazz societies, concerts, jazz festivals, and other special events from the San Francisco Bay area and Northern California to Redding, Stockton, Modesto, Sacramento, and Nevada. For the past few years, the band packed the popular venues at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, one of Sacramento's most popular and heavily attended city-wide festivals.

The band, consisting of trombone, trumpet, tuba, banjo, clarinet, piano, drums and vocals performs renditions of such good-time tunes as "When the Saints Go Marching In," "Bill Bailey," "Milenberg Joys," "Coney Island Washboard," and many more. They also perform original jazz tunes written by Dan Bohline. You can hear the band performing Dan's tunes on the recent CD, "Black Tuesday Does Sunday, River City Jazz Mass."

The Black Tuesday Jazz Band plays at clubs, parties, concerts, festivals, and other events where good-time, high-energy jazz music is a must.

Black Tuesday Jazz Band performances:

South Bay Traditional Jazz Society, Sunnyvale, California: 2003

Modesto Jazz Society: 2000

Redding River City Jazz Society: 2000, 1998

Stockton San Joaquin Dixieland Jazz Society: 2002, 2000, 1998

Sacramento Jazz Society, Jazz in the Parks: 1997–2003

Other Special Events:

Lutheran Church of the Master: 2004

Eagles Hall, Sacramento: 2004

Jazz Mass Jubilee at the Church of the Masters in Sacramento: 2003

California International Marathon, Fair Oaks, CA: 2003

...Plus, numerous public and private gigs in and around Sacramento and Northern California between 1997 and 2003.

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