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.

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.

This month’s PSTJS session features Alex Guilbert’s Stampede 7 Sextet.

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.

The old standby, “this band needs no introduction ...” is an especially fitting way to present this January’s featured attraction. Co-founded by our president Dr. Terry Rogers…