Remember how music used to be, before live bands needed an electrician? Back when a piano, some horns, a doghouse bass, and a drummer beating swing-time used to be enough to rouse a room? We do! From the syncopated heart of New Hampshire, the Tall Granite Jazz Band sound is a spirited homage to Chicago-style "Hot" jazz from the Roaring 1920s, into the Swing jazz of the ‘30s and ‘40s, and the swinging "Cool" jazz of the ‘50s and early ‘60s. Our influences range from King Oliver to Oliver Nelson, with stops at Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael, Miles Davis, Cole Porter, A.C. Jobim, and many other greats.
So if you're done with dueling banjos or screaming guitars, grab your two-tone shoes, slick back that hair, turn back the clock and swing and stomp or just relax to the Tall Granite Jazz Band's good-time jazz!
We'll be playing on the town commons in Hancock, NH, on Thursday, July 9th, starting at 7 p.m. Be sure to SWING by...and don't forget your lawnchairs!
We're heading into the season for live outdoor musical performance in northern New England. At this point, the Tall Granite Jazz Band will be performing at a number of bandstands in New Hampshire communities including Hancock, Newbury, Bow, Merrimack, and Elkins. Watch this page for details as dates and times draw near!
So the state of the world gives you the blues? Your stock portfolio's in meltdown and you just caught your boss mailing jewelry to distant relatives? So what if your Dartmouth graduate's back living in your basement with his girlfriend! There's nothing like a horn-blowing jazz band to put you back in that free-market-worshipping world-beater mood!
Celebrity sightings, wakes, weddings, rallies, roasts, revivals, birthdays, bandstands, gazebos, grand openings, grand juries, government bailouts, troop surges, job searches, early acceptances, early releases, official openings, official denials, send-offs, send-ups...the Tall Granite Jazz Band plays 'em all ! For quotes and bookings under the Hot Jazz Stimulus Plan, click to contact David Dustin at Moldy Fig Productions, LLC.
-- Jazz Fan Stan Hallinan, Bow, NH
Click the arrow on the left of the bar to hear samples of the Tall Granite Jazz Band in performance (mp3 format).
A Tall Granite sampler... (playing)
Sweet Georgia Brown (excerpt)
Moten Swing (excerpt)
Bye Bye Blackbird (full length)
Exclusively represented by Moldy Fig Productions LLC, Contoocook, New Hampshire,
Tel. 603-746-2669. Photos by Forester Photography, Margaret Landsman Winer, Holly Dustin and Heather Wing. Some audio clips courtesy Jack Duncan, WKXL 1450.
Tall Granite logo by Eric Palson, AIA.
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