Kinda Dixie

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The Kinda Dixie Jazz Band offers music to appeal to any pair of ears. This Las Vegas based band performs the fast paced, high energy entertainment one expects to find on “The Strip”. The band rose like a phoenix from the former jazz festival favorite, Sorta Dixie Jazz Band.

Kinda Dixie Jazz Band: Treasures

Read "Treasures" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins

by Todd S. Jenkins
September 25, 2003

The Kinda Dixie Jazz Band were one of the big hits of the 2003 Mammoth Lakes Jazz Jubilee in California's Sierra Nevadas. Trombonist/leader Jim Fitzgerald, who wears the raconteur hat as if he were born to it, led his eminently entertaining sextet through an upbeat, wild-eyed set that ranged from vibrant Four Freshmen vocal arrangements to trumpeter Ed Sherry's dead-on Ziggy Elman recreations and even Ray Stevens' “Mississippi Squirrel Revival." This new album captures much of the band's live spirit ...