31St Annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, May 28–31, 2004

International Bands: Fat Sam’s Band – Edinburgh, Scotland; Hot Jazz Band – Budapest, Hungary; Jazzin’ Jacks – Helsingborg, Sweden.

Guest Artist Bands: Howard Alden’s East Coast All Stars; Tommy Saunders’ Midwest All Stars; B.E.D. (Becky, Eddie, & Dan); Terry Blaine & Mark Shane with Allan Vaché.

Guest Artist Musicians: Bob Draga – Largo, Fl; Brady McKay – Sacramento, CA; John Sheridan – San Antonio, TX.

Eastern USA: Buck Creek Jazz Band – Springfield, Va; Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band – Cincinnati, OH; Jazz Incredibles – St. Louis, MO; Juggernaut Jug Band – Louisville, Ky; Rent Party Revellers – Mendenhall, PA.

Western USA: 101st Army Dixieland Band – Golden, Co; Big Tiny Little & The Show Band – Reno, NV; Igor’s Jazz Cowboys – Tempe, Az; Kinda Dixie Jazz Band – Las Vegas, Nv; Queen City Jazz Band – Denver, Co.

Pacific Northwest: Grand Dominion Jazz Band – Seattle, Wa; Oregon Jazz Band – Coos Bay, Or; Pearl Django – Seattle, Wa; Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band – Seattle, Wa.

Southern California: Carl Sonny Leyland Trio – Orange; Chicago Six – San Diego; Sue Palmer and Her Motel Swing Orchestra – San Diego.

Northern California: 10th Avenue Jazz Band – San Jose; Bill and Eddie – Sacramento and Monterey; Blue Street Jazz Band – Fresno; Devil Mountain Jazz Band – Oakley; High Sierra Jazz Band – Three Rivers; Midnight Rose Jazz Band – Wallace; Natural Gas Jazz Band – San Rafael; Clint Baker’s New New Orleans Jazz Band – San Bruno; Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums – Emeryville; Royal Society Jazz Orchestra – San Francisco.

Sacramento: Shelley Burns and Avalon Swing; Catsnjammer Jazz Band; Cheri Murphy Quartet; Fulton Street Jazz Band; Gold Standard Music Company; Dr. Bach & the Jazz Practitioners; Jim Martinez Quartet; Dick Johnson’s Mardi Gras Jazz Band; Sacramento Banjo Band; Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society Street Band; Silver Dollar Jazz Band; Swing City; Loyd Jones’ Town and Country Swing Band; Vivian Lee Quintet.

Gospel Singing Groups: Precious Craft and the Voices Of Faith.

California State University, Sacramento Jazz Studies Program: CSUS Jazz Ensemble; CSUS Latin Jazz Ensemble.

Youth Bands: The 51st Eight – Chilliwack, Bc (Canada); Dry Creek Dixie Dawgs – Littleton, CO; Evolution – North Bend, Or; Howlin’ Coyote Jazz Band – Elk Grove, Ca; Street Jazz Cats – Davis, Ca; Mission Bay High School Dixie Jazz Band – San Diego, Ca; The Straw Hats – San Jose, Ca; The New Traditionalists – Sacramento, Ca.

(www.sacjazz.com/performers.html)

The Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band is a group of well-trained musicians whose specialty is Classic Traditional Jazz. The musical effect is at once entertaining, humorous and infectious. Founded in 1994 by veteran banjo artist and showman, Bob Adams, the band continues to gain an increasing number of fans on domestic and international stages.

The Tri-State region of the Greater Cincinnati Area is home base for this popular group. The band's performances for jazz clubs, on cruises, at park concerts and jazz festivals always draw large audiences, and its recordings have received favorable acclaim. The Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band is sure to provide listeners of all ages with an enjoyable experience.

Who's Who in the Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band

Bob Adams (leader, banjo, vocals). Bob has a lot of experience as a veteran showman and jazz band leader. He developed his life-long passion for music by listening to hot jazz recordings throughout his youth and early adulthood. Bob spent several years as an educator before deciding to actively play music on a full-time basis. He has been featured with such groups as the Early Times Show Band, the Ragtimers (on Bourbon Street in New Orleans), the Pearly Band and Banjo Kings. Bob also owned the famed Meier's Café in Cincinnati, home of his original Blue Chip Jazz Band. He created the Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band in 1994.

Sally Lukasik (trumpet). Sally's musical journey began at the age of five, when a door-to-door salesman sold her parents an accordion. At age ten, she made her trumpet debut performing her own solo rendition of Louis Armstrong's hit recording of the Broadway show tune. She is a graduate of her hometown Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and performed with the Cincinnati Symphony before earning her Master's degree in music theory at the University of Denver. Sally spent eighteen years as a music educator in several states. She has appeared at numerous jazz festivals and spent ten years with Denver's Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra.

Joe Lukasik (clarinet). Joe is well known to most of our audiences for his dazzling clarinet mastery and a sense humour, both on and off the stage. This self-taught musician has performed with many prestigious jazz groups at festivals and concerts both nationally and internationally. Joe spent nine years performing with Horace Henderson, and appeared at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival in 1991. A remarkable teacher, Joe continues to coach clarinetists and students of jazz at all levels of development, and he is the author of a handbook on the art of improvisation. In recent years, Joe has made regular appearances at Cincinnati's Blue Wisp Jazz Club and has recorded for several local labels. He and his wife Sally joined the Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band in 1996.

Gus Ross (drums). Twelve years of his youth were spent playing French horn, but his teachers at the College-Conservatory of Music showed him the way to his true rhythmic calling. Gus is a swinging two-beat percussionist. His influences go back to Baby Dodds, Joe Morello, Chauncy Morehouse and Gene Krupa. With extensive show experience, Gus performs with many local and regional bands, recently recording with Terry Waldo's Gutbucket Syncopators. Gus has been with the BRJB since it's foundation in 1994. (www.jazztrek.com)