The Bucktown Five

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The Bucktown Five

The Bucktown Five was a jazz group active in the early 1920s in the Chicago area of the United States. The group played a New Orleans style of collective improvisational jazz and were forerunners of the Chicago style which developed in later years. About eighteen months after breaking up, many of the same players recorded in Chicago as the Stomp Six. The Bucktown Five also recorded with Bix Beiderbecke.

Contents

The band's name is linked with New Orleans, as Bucktown is a Chicago neighborhood, but also the name of the settlement that grew up on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain after the close of Storyville. It became a smaller version of that district. [1]

Members

Discography

The group recorded on Claxtonola Records and other labels. Recordings include:

References

  1. Bucktown Five , retrieved September 7, 2013
  2. Yanow, Scott, Bix Biederbeck & the Chicago Cornets , retrieved September 26, 2013
  3. Feather, Leonard; Gitle, Ira (1999), The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Oxford University Press
  4. The Bucktown Five-01-06 , retrieved September 7, 2013