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Direct to the source ...
Ask Jimmy LaRocca
a jazz question
European Tour 2004
Ireland & Scotland
LSU Sugarbowl
pre-party with ODJB
Sunday Jan 4, 2004
View photos on the
Vintage photos page
in the Photo Gallery
Notable:
8/4/2002
Kennedy Center
Washington Post
Performance Review
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Notable quotes:
… wonderfully evocative of the era, …The front line … is so well versed in traditional jazz polyphony that the band’s fundamental inspiration was always evident.
- Mike Joyce, The Washington Post, Monday, August 5, 2002
“Jimmy LaRocca leads a fine contemporary New Orleans band”
- Jack Sohmer, Mississippi Rag, 2001
“I have never heard anyone play trumpet like Jimmy LaRocca. He is the best in the world for this style of music.”
- Presenter, German Postal Conference, 2000
“Your band is fantastic. It is rare for any band performing here to get a standing ovation like you have received.”
- Ake Bjorange, Sandviken Big Band Bang, Sweden, 1999
“The first great jazz orchestra was formed in New Orleans by a cornet player named Dominick James LaRocca. They were the hottest five pieces that had ever been known before. They all came to be famous players and the Dixieland Band has gone down now in musical history.”
- Louis Armstrong, Swing That Music, 1936
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