The Cellar Boys with Roya Naldi

Dempster Street near Dodge, Evanston IL

17 December, 2021

Description

Celebrate the holidays with Chicago’s premiere traditional jazz group! The Chicago Cellar Boys specialize in the jazz and hot dance music from the 1920s and 30s (eg. Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong) within stylistic accuracy and wild abandon. Hearing this group is like time-traveling and walking in on an early form of jazz as it was being invented. Their repertoire contains some recognizable pieces that are still played in other contexts, but many that were exclusively of the era and have otherwise been lost to history. This concert will be recorded live for Chicago Jazz Live on WDCB. 8 p.m. Friday December 17 at Studio5 1934 Dempster Street, Evanston. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $35 for cabaret seating. For more information, call or visit.