Formed in 1960, this top ranked and highly accomplished Swedish band from Gothenburg has built a solid reputation all over Europe and the USA for its exciting foot-tapping brand of happy jazz.
The music
of Peoria Jazzband encompasses jazz styles from New Orleans and Dixieland to
swing. In addition to great standard tunes by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and others, Peoria
Jazzband always looks for interesting, less well known tunes Vocalist Rosemarie Simonsen gives the music a very special
touch.
Peoria Jazzband has appeared at several international jazz festivals, such as
"Dixieland Jazz Jubilee", Sacramento Carlifornia, USA 1981 and 1995,
"Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival" in Davenport, USA 2001, "Jazz Reunion Festival" New Orleans USA,
French Quarter Festival" in New Orleans (4 times), "Dresden International
Dixieland Festival" (Twice) and "Hot Jazz Meeting" plus a number of other jazz festivals in
Germany, "Guiness Jazz Festival", Cork, Ireland, "Jazz Jantar" and
"Old Jazz Meeting" in Poland, "Hertzogenbosch Jazz Festival", Holland
and "Nemzetközi Dixieland Festival" in Hungary. The band has also of course
played at many jazz festivals in the Scandinavian countries. Peoria
Jazzband has made eight tours to the USA and in 2005 the band was
invited to the festival "Jazzy Shanghai" in China and on this most exciting
and interesting tour the band also went on to Beijing for jazz club gigs.
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Peoria Jazzband on Bourbon Street, New Orleans. |
Countless concerts have been given in
clubs, restaurants, art halls, museums, libraries, universities, hospitals and even
prisons.
For many years now Peoria Jazzband has also given lots of gospel concerts
together with choirs in churches all over Sweden and several other countries.
Peoria Jazzband has broadcasted regularly on radio programmes in Sweden
and abroad and has appeared on TV in Sweden, Polen, Hungary, Germany, USA
and China.
The music of Peoria Jazzband is also available on several CD:s and cassettes, see "Recordings".