The Salty Dogs, The Fat Babies

Dance the night away! One set by each band and then one together.

Also tonight the Salty Dogs welcome back clarinet/sax player Kim Cusack.

The roots of THE SALTY DOGS dig deep to the early jazz musicians of the 1920s — Hoagy Carmichael, King Oliver, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Biederbecke, Hitch's Happy Harmonists, and Louis Armstrong. They all recorded in Richmond, Indiana and many of their sidemen settled in the Chicago area. In the 1950s and 1960s, many of these players were still active and performed side-by-side with members of the Salty Dogs. The list includes some of the greatest names in jazz history: Georg Brunis, Lil Armstrong, Quinn Wilson, Darnell Howard, George Lewis, Lou Black, Jim Lannigan, "Little Brother" Montgomery, "Banjo" Ikey Robinson, Franz Jackson and a host of others who shared their music, knowledge and notes with the Salty Dogs. The Dogs roots also go deep at FitzGerald's back to the days when it was known as the Hunt Club. Check out the photos from 1954 on the wall to the left of the stage.   http://saltydogsjazzband.com/

Tickets are $10.

THE FAT BABIES are a seven piece jazz band interpreting classic styles of the 1920s and ‘30s. Founded in 2010 by string bass player Beau Sample, its members include Andy Schumm (cornet), John Otto (reeds), Dave Bock (trombone), Jake Sanders (banjo and guitar), Paul Asaro (piano), and Alex Hall (drums). The Babies new album, "Chicago Hot," was chosen as one of the best of the year by the Chicago Tribune's Howard Reich: "Few young musicians focus on pre-bebop jazz as intensely as the Fat Babies, and fewer still dispatch repertoire by Jelly Roll Morton, Joe "King" Oliver and other vintage masters with comparable tonal luster and knowledge of period style. "Chicago Hot" establishes the Fat Babies as important players in interpreting scores from the too-oft-forgotten early chapters of jazz history."   www.thefatbabies.com