Farewell Blues

Statesmen of Jazz

Statesmen of Jazz was a swing jazz group started in 1994 by the American Federation of Jazz Societies. The group performs as a sextet, but it has a rotating, all-star membership comprising about thirty musicians. The group released its first album in 1994 for Arbors Records, performed at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee in 1995, and toured Japan in 1997.When the group started, all of its members were over the age of sixty-five. more »