From Dixieland to Detroit takes you on a musical road trip to explore the continuities and
contrasts between the early jazz of the late 1910s and 1920s, and the bebop, post-bop
and blues styles from the mid-1940s onwards.
As part of The Questors Community Festival.
Guiding you on this journey are two local and overlapping ensembles, driving both the
continuity and the contrast.
Starting the evening will be The Ealing Very Senior Hot Jazz Orchestra. Jeremy Robinson
will play the trumpet and cornet, Gill Hilton the clarinet, Peter Hutchison the tenor
saxophone, Denis Barry the banjo and Jamie Royan the double bass. Formed out of the
playing parents of The Ealing Junior Music School, the “Very Seniors” will take you back to
the Roaring Twenties (1920s, that is) to re-interpret the early music of Louis Armstrong,
Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke, with a nod to the marching bands of New Orleans.
The Very Seniors will park up and hand the keys to 59 de Ville. Named for a famous
Detroit-manufactured Cadillac with jet-age tailwings, and dated the year Miles Davis
released Kind of Blue - 59 de Ville’s music is grounded in the blues of the decades around
the mid-20th century, taking in side roads of bebop and a few classic standards, with a
delightfully refreshing sound. Jamie Royan returns on double bass & bass guitar, Jeremy
Robinson on trumpet and flugelhorn, frontman Russ Varakuta leads on guitar and vocals,
and Dave Cee drives the rhythm on the drums.
