TUBA SKINNY RAG BAND
2013
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A century ago, something big happened in American music: embarking on a four-year vaudeville tour in 1914, the Creole Band of New Orleans brought jazz's first rumblings to the whole nation. When the band appeared at a Los Angeles boxing match, “the crowd stood up as one man and shouted for us to get in the ring, and screamed and screamed,” said their reedman, George Baquet. Jazz writer Scott Yanow has called the Orchestra “one of the great bands to have never recorded.”
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Now a hundred years later, something new is afoot: New Orleans jazz has re-emerged, among a new generation. Between July 2015 and December 2016, the World Swing Dance Council counted 120 scheduled organized dances in 24 states and 15 foreign countries. Small clubs around the country regularly host swing music. 
HOT SARDINES 2017
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With guidance from social media, the Millennials migrate between these locations where, finding each other, they move into Lindy-hop ecstasy, motivated by hot young bands with names like Tuba Skinny, the Chicago Fat Babies, the Hot Sardines, and a myriad others.
“Jazz Jumps” reveals the indomitable grit of our bedrock American music. The program features six pairs of tunes—one played by the original 1920s or 1930s band, the other by a hot group of today’s generation. 
For years, people have said, “Jazz is dead.” But they've been looking in the wrong direction. In the 21st century, the music seems just now to be getting its legs.
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♬ LISTEN: Tuba Skinny, 2012
Crazy About You
Tuba Skinny is one of the most synchronous yet rootsy new bands in the traditional jazz idiom. You can see them in New Orleans on Bourbon Street--eight “ragtag” kids in their late twenties and early thirties playing jazz and jug-band music tight as a clock and fueling a floor full of Lindy Hoppers into a jumping groove. The next wave!
Crazy About You
Tuba Skinny is one of the most synchronous yet rootsy new bands in the traditional jazz idiom. You can see them in New Orleans on Bourbon Street--eight “ragtag” kids in their late twenties and early thirties playing jazz and jug-band music tight as a clock and fueling a floor full of Lindy Hoppers into a jumping groove. The next wave!