Tenement Jazz band are a traditional jazz band formed in early 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Brought together by their shared love of New Orleans music, and comprising musicians from various corners of Edinburgh’s vibrant jazz scene, they are on a journey of exploration back to the roots of the music that they play. Their aims are to capture the raw energy and excitement of the early jazz recordings, to find and revive lesser-heard songs and cultivate their own interpretations of these, all in order to captivate experienced jazzers, dancing persons, and uninitiated ears alike. In their brief existence so far they have performed at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Jazz Festivals, collaborated with various musicians via their own Cellar Session residency, and performed their own hit show on the Edinburgh Fringe telling the story of the ‘Red Hot Roots of Jazz’ from turn of the century New Orleans and beyond. 'Tenement Jazz Band will be performing music from the likes of Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong's Hot 5, King Oliver and other pioneers of early Jazz, Ragtime and Blues from the 1920's and 30's.

Patrick Darley - Trombone;
Chuck Dearness - Trumpet;
Stephen Feast - Clarinet;
Rory Clark - Sousaphone;
John Youngs - Banjo