Big Butter Jazz Band

The Big Butter Jazz Band is dedicated to playing New Orleans Traditional (aka Trad) jazz and Swing jazz. We play standards and songs from the 1900’s-1930’s, from the times when jazz was still dance music. Whether you call it Trad, early jazz, hot jazz, Dixieland, New Orleans jazz, or vintage jazz, it’s full of beautiful melodies, infectious energy, and a pulsing rhythm that you can’t help but dance to.

The band was founded in 2013 and has been playing restaurants, bars, festivals, special events, jazz festivals and swing dances all around Southern California ever since. Drawing inspiration from the musicians of the past as well as the young New Orleans bands on Frenchmen Street, they’ll get your feet shuffling, head bobbing, fingers snapping, and body moving with their hard-driving rhythm section and hot ensemble choruses.