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The Grand
Dominion Jazz Band came together as the musical vision of Vancouver
banjoist Michael Cox, immigrant to Canada from Wales, who was steeped in
the music of the New Orleans revivalist musicians such as George Lewis,
Bunk Johnson, Kid Ory, Baby Dodds and others. Mike and his expatriate
friends in Vancouver had grown up in the UK listening to Ken Colyer, Chris
Barber , Humphrey Lyttelton, and others on the trad jazz scene. Mike
decided to put a band of like-minded players together from both sides of
the Canada - US border, a band that embodied all the rough-and-ready,
hard-driving, ensemble - playing characteristics of the revivalist bands.
For two weekend concerts, July 16 - 17th, 1982, Mike assembled members of
three Pacific Northwestern bands to play two concert dances at the Hot
Jazz Club in Vancouver.
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