The Shake Em Up Jazz Band is another New Orleans band featured at this year’s Jubilee. Last year we introduced them to the Jubilee...and the crowd wants more! Back by popular demand, this talented group of musicians will surely “shake you up” with jazz standards & their own compositions.
This uniquely multi-talented band features clarinet/sax/vocalist, Chloe Feoranzo: It seems that Chloe can do it all (& well, a regular clarinet dynamo). She is featured in other Jubilee special sets as well. Central Coast’s own Molly Reeves jams on guitar/vocals. Molly was a multiple trad jazz scholarship recipient of our jazz club. You may remember her old group, Red Skunk. Now she’s a professional New Orleans musician. We’re like proud trad jazz parents. Haruka Kikuchi really represents on trombone. Always a crowd favorite, she is again featured with other all-stars at this year’s festival. Marla Dixon blares on trumpet, denoting her British Drum Corps background. Julie Schexnayder womans the bass & sings. Defne “Izzy” Incirlioglu is on various percussion, rounding out this talented all-female, you go-girl, New Orleans traditional jazz band.
The Shake Em Up Jazz Band shakes up traditional jazz gender boundaries, as well as your hips. Close your eyes, how can you tell they’re female? Woman musicians at this year’s Jubilee by the Sea comprise 22% of our band personnel, far exceeding festival norms. This is something we are proud of, as women were well-represented in early jazz, such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker, & Lillian Hardin. There will be several special sets at this year’s jubilee helping illustrate this story: (1) Women Composers, by the aforementioned Shake Em Up Jazz Band; (2) Women in the Blues by The Creole Syncopators’ Valerie Johnson, previously of Big Brother & the Holding Company: Valerie can sing dem blues!; (3) Sue Palmer & Her (Mostly-Female) Motel Swing Band, Swingin’ w/ the Ladies; & (4) Pat Yankee & Her All-Stars, with her Tribute to Louis Armstrong: This should be a big hit.
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