Remember how music used to be, before live bands needed an electrician? Back when a piano, some horns, a doghouse bass, and a drummer beating swing-time used to be enough to rouse a room? We do! From the syncopated heart of New Hampshire, the Tall Granite Jazz Band sound is a spirited homage to Chicago-style "Hot" jazz from the Roaring 1920s, into the Swing jazz of the ‘30s and ‘40s, and the swinging "Cool" jazz of the ‘50s and early ‘60s. Our influences range from King Oliver to Oliver Nelson, with stops at Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael, Miles Davis, Cole Porter, Louis Jordan, Van Morrison, and many other greats.
So if you're done with dueling banjos or screaming guitars, grab your two-tone shoes, slick back that hair, turn back the clock and swing and stomp or just relax to the Tall Granite Jazz Band's good-time jazz!
The band will make its debut at the Angela Robinson Gazebo in Henniker, New Hampshire on Tuesday, August 17 at 7 p.m. The concert is free to all. Lawnchairs and blankets are recommended. The gazebo is located in the village center diagonally across from Daniels Restaurant. In case of rain, the performance moves into the community building up the lawn from the gazebo.
So the state of the world gives you the blues? Your stock portfolio's in meltdown and you just caught your boss mailing expensive jewelry to distant relatives? So what if your Dartmouth graduate's back living in your basement with his girlfriend! There's nothing like a horn-blowing jazz band to put you back in that free-market-worshipping, world-beater mood!
Celebrity sightings, wakes, weddings, rallies, roasts, revivals, birthdays, bandstands, gazebos, grand openings, grand juries, government bailouts, troop surges, job searches, early acceptances, early releases, official openings, official denials, send-offs, send-ups...the Tall Granite Jazz Band plays 'em all ! For quotes and bookings under the American Hot Jazz Stimulus and Recovery Plan, click to contact David Dustin at Moldy Fig Productions, LLC.
-- Jazz Fan Stan Hallinan, The Vintage Farm, Bow, NH
-- "Jazz Man Jerry," Merrimack, NH
Click the arrow on the left of the bar to hear a sample of the Tall Granite Jazz Band in performance (mp3 format).
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (excerpt)
Click a selection below to go to YouTube.com for video clips of the band...
Don't Get Around Much Any MoreSong For My Father
Who Can I Turn To?
There'll Be Some Changes Made
Represented by Moldy Fig Productions LLC, Contoocook, New Hampshire,
Tel. 603-746-2669. Photos by Geoff Forester Photography, Margaret Landsman Winer,
Holly Wiggin, and Heather Wing. Tall Granite logo by Eric Palson, AIA.
Click to visit the Tall Granite Jazz Band photo gallery. . .
