A stolen moment from the Eighth Street Orchestra early evening set at the #DromTaberna - Louis Armstrong was criticized for including Show Tunes outside the trad jazz repertoire, meaning Broadway. Our take on Pop's direction is a little different, extra points (or dating yourself) if you can name the show
I would mention our gig at the #DromTaberna tonight, but considering the weather, it is very likely to be packed with a lineup anyway 😆

This just in: our bass-culture for #DromTaberna Friday evening is sousaphone master Tom Richards who's also featured on our in-process LP.

#ESO ain't yer dad's trad, dad, but with sous is something we can only do very rarely, and kicks it into alter-outer realms of trad, esp with Tom. I expect bootleggers 😅

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I will recommended #Slivovice as apropos. It is, btw, available in both Polish and Romanian at our gig at the #DromTaberna Friday evening, but moreover we have solid jazz evidence of the efficacy 🤣

https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/virtual-exhibits/a-chops-session-the-slivovice-interview/

“A Chops Session”: The Slivovice Interview - Louis Armstrong House Museum

With millions of people forced to stay at home because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the overarching theme of this site has been about what Louis Armstrong did when he was home. Our first post introduced Louis and Lucille’s long history with Corona, Queens, while our second offered rare audio clips of Louis warming up onContinue reading ““A Chops Session”: The Slivovice Interview”

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SHOUT! The Band
rehearsing some new arrangements for tonight's show at #DromTaberna
DROM X GODSPEED MUSIC SERIES 2026 — #GodspeedBrewery #DromTaberna — the plot thickens… 242 Coxwell Avenue #jazzintoronto
https://www.godspeedbrewery.com/events-1/2026/1/28/drom-x-godspeed-music-series
DROM X GODSPEED MUSIC SERIES 2026 — Godspeed Brewery

DROM TABERNA IS EAST BOUND! On the last Wednesday of every month we will feature a unique evening of Drom specials and live music, as we hand the reigns over to our good friends at Drom to do what they do best! SCHEDULE JANUARY 28th: Nolan Murphy Orchestra with Guests FEBUAR

Godspeed Brewery
it's beginning to look a lot like something! A smaller #EighthStreetOrchestra will be Santa's busker band at #DundasSquare Saturday evening followed by the #NolanMurphyOrchestra for a late night of #SwingBand holiday favourites 2:30-4am at the #DromTaberna!

also, Christmas Eve Drom we'll be backing #DonovanLocke for appropriate classics served piping hot the way we like them 🔥

Not sure how folks feel about audio toots, but this is nine minutes or so of the sound of a typical Saturday 3am on #QueenWest, a little thing we call I Can't Give You Anything But L-O-V-E

#notyerdadstraddad #eso #DromTaberna #LiveMusicIsBest #noAI #actualmusicians

Tonight at the #DromTaberna

Set-lists primed and ready for the trad jazz that ain't yer dad's trad @eso at the spacetime place of #Toronto #DromTaberna Friday June 6th 8pm.

It's like Bix said, why do I like this #jazz? Because I don't know what's going to happen next, do you? Nolan, Pat Smith, Patricio Llovet and I will be joined by Paul Callander and Sean McCarthy for you #jazzintoronto heads, I heard 'bass sax' and signed on! So, really, anything is possible! 😊

there is only a quantum probability we will resemble this: