jazz2love

  New Release:  A Texas Sized Band from the Joymakers Label:  Turtle Bay Records Release Date:  April 24, 2026 Website:  www.facebook.com/colin.hancock2101 Based in Austin, Texas, the Joymakers revive stomping ragtime jazz, which emerged in speakeasies through the 1920's and early '30s.  Rejuvenating the hot jazz of vaudeville shows, Broadway's tinpan alley days, and the nostalgic dancehalls of Storyville in New Orleans, the 10-piece ensemble delivers Prohibition Era jazz with a modern tilt on their sophomore release A Texas Sized Band .  Fronted by multi-instrumentalist Colin Hancock, the tracks are vintage standards, arranged by Hancock and saxophonist/vocalist Lauryn Gould.  The tunes are overwhelmingly sunny and jubilant anchored by strutting rhythms, horns that blare and pop, keys that rattle and sizzle, and Westen Borghesi's banjo that quivers and flares.  The clip-clopping beats of "The Pay Off" induce a party atmosphere, turning to a ...

Album:  Down Where The Bluebonnets Grow Artist:  The Joymakers Label:  Turtle Bay Records Website:  https://www.facebook.com/colin.hancock2101 IG: @ch2101 Label:  https://www.turtlebayrecords.com/our-albums/down-where-the-bluebonnets-grow YouTube: @turtlebayrecords9686 Down Where The Bluebonnets Grow , the debut release from the Joymakers, led by brass player Colin Hancock, unveiling their exhilarating arrangements of jazz standards from the Prohibition Era of the late 1920's and early 1930's.  Uniting New Orleans Louisiana (NOLA) ragtime with Dixieland jazz, riverboat bluegrass, boogie woogie, tinpan alley/showtunes blues, hot jazz, and jazz age lawn party rhythms like the Lindy hop, the Charleston, and jive, the Joymakers bridge vintage idioms with contemporary appeal. The press release tells, "The band plays all kinds of traditional jazz, but they specialize in music played in the late 1920s and early 1930s by 'territory bands' based in San Antonio, Kans...