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In 2012 the band again was officially invited to the Dresden Dixieland Festival and also the bands 50th anniversary was celebrated. For this event a new CD called “Glimpses of a new century” was released. As for now the band is active in certain types of gigs and is willing to continue preservation of good old classic Jazz. The 60th anniversary was highlighted by a festive concert in 2022 in Jena. |
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| Concerts at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Silkeborg, Danmark, together with Jaques Gauthe, a clarinet and soprano-saxophone player from New Orleans and former student of Sidney Bechet, the participation at the XV. Salon Traditional Jazz in Prague as well as at the International Competitions of Jazz New-Orleans in Saint-Raphaël, France, in 2003 have been highlights in the life of the band. In 2004 the second CD named "Dixieland doin's" was released, also there have been again concerts in the Netherlands and Danmark. 2005 the band was participant at the 35th International Dixielandfestival in Dresden and it also was a second time in Saint-Raphaël, France, for the International Competitions of Jazz New-Orleans. Lots of concerts, i.e. in the underground in the cavern of the power station Markersbach, at the Jazz-Weekend in Arnstadt, in the old venerable Collegienhof of the university of Jena together with the Jubilee Singers Jena, in Hamburg in the Cotton-Club and at the Feuerschiff, at the Quedlinburger Jazz- and Swingdays, and lately at the festival of traditional jazz „Golden Stream“ in Poland as well as in Jazzclubs in Danmark and of course at the annual festival „Dixieland Meeting Jena“ add to the long list of performances until today. |
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Gunnar Besen |
tp, voc, ld |
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