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John Skillman’s Barb City Stompers: DeKalb Blues
by Nic Jones
The Barb City Stompers is a trad through swing band that was formed in 2004 but the pedigree of some of the players goes back well beyond that date. Clarinetist John Skillman has been a member of the Buck Creek Jazz Band for thirty one years, for example, while Roy Rubinstein has offset his career as a physicist with over fifty years of trombone playing. In fact with the exception of drummer Aaron Puckett the whole band has pursued careers ...
Continue ReadingJohn Skillman's Barb City Stompers - Dekalb Blues (Delmark)
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Master of a Small House
Based in DeKalb, Illinois, the birth-place of barbed wire, John Skillman's jazz quintet operates just a figurative hop, skip and jump from Delmark HQ That geographical proximity explains, in part, producer Bob Koester's close affinity for their efforts. The other, even more immediate, explanation rests in the ensemble's populist blend of Hot, Trad and Swing jazz styles. Clarinetist John Skillman, the leader of the crew, takes his instrumental cues directly from Crescent City doyens like Edmund Hall and Johnny Dodds. ...
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