Newsletter Articles
THE BLACK SWAN RETURNS NOVember 15!
The Black Swan returns to PSTJS this November 5th. Join us!!
THE MARKET STREET JAZZ BAND RETURNS OCTOBER 18!
The Market Street Jazz Band returns October 18th to Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society. They played its first PSTJS dance/concert back in June 2012.
ANDREW OLIVER’S BRIDGETOWN SEXTET OPENS SEASON SEPT. 20!
Get ready for an extraordinary afternoon of hot dancing, syncopated rhythm, and blazing brass!
prez sez summer 2026 Update
Summer updates and changes to our membership program to ensure continuation of our beautiful organization.
prez sez June 2026 Edition
Well, there are certainly different ways to play this wonderful music from the first part of the last century. What we heard from Black Swan on Sunday was a polished, driven, exciting version of traditional jazz…
prez sez may 2026 Edition
The April concert was another really fine afternoon of wonderful traditional jazz brought to us by Alex Guilbert as leader of his Stampede Seven.
MIKE DAVIS AND THE NEW WONDERS
Mike Davis traces his love for the trumpet back to a Disney movie. He grew up in a musical family, with both his parents playing strings in the Seattle Symphony, but Davis wanted an instrument of his own.
AT LONG LAST, THE BLACK SWAN COMES BACK
Call it a hot jazz scrimmage, a rent-party rumble, a barn-burner of stomps and blues; Black Swan doesn’t just play the gig; they blow the roof off the joint and then move the goalposts for good measure.
ALEX GUILBERT LEADS THE CHARGE WITH THE STAMPEDE 7 ON APRIL 19!
This month’s PSTJS session features Alex Guilbert’s Stampede 7 Sextet.
PREZ SEZ - April 2026
Wow! What a cool afternoon of music performed by the Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies from Portland this afternoon!
PREZ SEZ - March 2026
As most of you know, I have played traditional jazz for a long time.
IT’S THE HOT LOVIN’ JAZZ BABIES ON MARCH 15!
Although the Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies have performed for us just once before this month, most of its members are familiar to us as part of the Bridgetown Sextet.
ARNIE AND HIS RHYTHM
“Arnt’s repertoire is optimistic and romantic but there’s also melancholy: Hear his moving, even fierce “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?” in honor of Bing Crosby and economic miseries, and his earnestly wounded “Careless Love.”
PREZ SEZ - February 2026
Well darn, that was really fun. I am still basking in the energy that was present in the room at our meeting yesterday at the Elks.
IN MEMORIAM: BOB RANN
Robert “Bob” Rann, renowned tubaist and a foundational figure in the traditional jazz revival movement, passed away peacefully on August 1, 2025, at the age of 88.
RETURN OF THE NOONATICS JUMP STARTS A NEW SEASON!
Our inaugural show for the 2025–26 season features Matt Weiner’s Noonatics, a combination that debuted on our stage in March 2023 as a tip of the hat to the great New Orleans clarinetist Jimmie Noone.