Paramount Jazz Band of Boston
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Re-cordially your's, Ray Smith
Paramount Jazz Band of BostonLast updated:
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Ray Smith, Founder/Leader EmeritusBesides being a world renown jazz record collector and historian, Ray Smith has been broadcasting jazz
Since 1958. He has been with WGBH 89.7 in Boston since 1972. His signature show,
Jazz Decades
has been in syndication for
many years and can be heard in many U.S. cities and on the internet at
www.wgbh.org on Sundays evenings at 7 p.m.,
Eastern Standard Time. Jazz Decades delves into the roots of jazz, explaining a different aspect of traditional jazz every week. In 1997, Jazz Decades won first prize from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association for Metropolitan Stations Musical Programming. A charter member of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, Smith culls Jazz Decades programs from the more than 90,000 titles in his collection. |
THE PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND OF BOSTON, known to jazz festival attendees as "the band musicians go to hear", is gathering a growing parade of dedicated jazz fans that extends from TANGLEWOOD to TAMPA, from SEATTLE to SAN DIEGO and from the ROCKIES to the CATSKILLS. Boasting of one of the most extensive and eclectic books in the country, the band plays music drawn from more than seventy years of American popular and jazz music with roots in the music of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton, as well as Scott Joplin, Tiny Parham, Isham Jones and the Halfway House Orchestra. It is presented with an apparent love and respect that is a listening joy to audiences of all ages and musical tastes. The band is a favorite of dancers as well as listeners because of its flexible style. More than 15 different instruments are used to give the band a wide variety of sounds and textures. You will hear dixieland, ragtime, stomps, ballads and blues as well as the 1920s "hot dance" and "Hotel Orchestra" styles.
