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James Langton

Born: July 24, 1967

English born James Langton rose to prominence as the singer and leader of the internationally acclaimed Pasadena Roof Orchestra with whom he toured worldwide for seven years. Since settling full-time in the USA, James has worked closely with renowned swing clarinetist Dan Levinson to create the New York All-Star Big Band, performing regularly in the Tri-State area and beyond. The band’s repertoire has grown out of the now massive library of arrangements James has collected over the years, many from the archives of the original bands. “… the music we play has actually been gathered together by me from American universities, from the original ‘books of the Big Bands’… You know, I’ve got copies of the actual original arrangements,” he told a journalist for ‘Blues and Soul Magazine’ last year

Celebrating Bix!

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: At the Jazz Band Ball; Proud (Of a Baby Like You); Deep Harlem; Riverboat Shuffle; Davenport Blues; The Jazz Me Blues; Blue River; I Need Some Pettin’; I’m Coming Virginia; Lonely Melody; Clementine (from New Orleans); Trumbology; From Monday On; Singin’ the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home); There’ll Come a Time (Wait and See); China Boy; Just an Hour of Love; Borneo; Clarinet Marmalade; ‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; San; Deep Down South.

The Bix Centennial All Stars: Celebrating Bix!

by Jack Bowers
September 14, 2023

Here's a new album by the Bix Centennial All Stars honoring the legacy of the renowned cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Sort of. Actually, most of the music on Celebrating Bix! was recorded and released in March 2003, the actual centenary of Beiderbecke's birth in Davenport, Iowa. This expanded twentieth anniversary edition includes a trio of songs not ...