West End Jazz Band • Chicago

The Award-Winning West End Jazz Band To view the awards, click on the items below. Starr-Gennett Champion Award The Coon-Sanders Roodles Award The Jean Goldkette Award for Musical Excellence Watch the West End Jazz Band playing, "Rocky Mountain Blues"		Photo by Marc Kritzer
		Current Happenings & News
		last updated February 3, 2010 The newest West End Jazz Band CD "Sunny Side Up" On the Rivermont Label To order now, see the Rivermont Records web site 9th Annual Hudson Lake Train Trip Sunday, May 2, 2010 "Tickets on Sale Now" click here for details and order form NOTICE: The Milk Pail Brunch has gone on a Winter Break. The Sunday Jazz brunch is discontinued for now. We hope to start back up this spring. Thanks to all those who have supported us for the last 14 years!

The jazz age, like the big band era, lasted only about a decade. But as it passed through the twenties, it was one of the wildest decades in the history of our country. It was the Roaring Twenties, the Age of Ballyhoo, easy money and discontent. The younger generation was on a breathless, energetic spree trying to rewrite all the rules in one brief decade. The jazz age produced more than just flappers, bath tub gin, hip flasks and speakeasies. Nothing caught the spirit of the twenties so expressively as the syncopated beat of jazz, and no one recreates it as well as the West End Jazz Band with genuine hot and sweet dance styles of the 1920s and the 1930s.