When the great violinist Stuff Smith arrived in New York in 1936, he and trumpeter Jonah Jones formed a small orchestra that for four years graced the Onyx Club on 52nd Street. There they produced some of the most compelling, hard-swinging recordings to come out of New York at that time.
The Viper Club features four of the most universally recognised international jazz musicians in recent years. With a vast range of interests and a collective résumé which reads as a who’s who of current early swing jazz, the quartet strive to keep the music of Stuff Smith and his orchestra well and truly alive.
