Jazz Articles about The George Gee Big Band

The George Gee Big Band: Settin' the Pace

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2004

George Gee, big band jazz's answer to the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going and going and going...

The diminutive New York-based dynamo leads at least two and perhaps as many as four bands. For the neo-swing crowd there's the Jump Jive and Wailers; for dancers there's the Make Believe Ballroom Orchestra; for those who lean toward the legendary Big Band Era there's the George Gee Swing Orchestra (which, when last heard from, was Swingin' in Swing City Zurich ), and ...