King Cotton Jazz Band

Formed in 1990 in Chico, the KING COTTON JAZZ BAND has become an Alta California Favorite. A hard working band, KING COTTON frequently performs in concert, at jazz festivals, casinos, fairs, and other commercial events from Central California to Southern Oregon. We are a hard driving band powered by a strong rhythm section and known for ensemble playing and vocals.

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(530) 891-8259

Upcoming Performances 2012

May 20 River City Jazz Society Redding

July 15 Feather River Jazz Society Graeagle

July 29 Lake Almanor Community Concert

SOME PLACES WE’VE PLAYED: Chico Concert in the Park • Feather River Jazz Society (Graeagle) • Silver Dollar Fair • Sacramento Jazz Jubilee • Butte County Fair • Monterey Jazz Society • Colusa County Fair • Medford Community Concerts • Friends of the Library Concert Series (Pleasanton) • Yreka Community Concerts • River City Jazz Society (Redding) • Greater Chico Chamber of Commerce Industrial Barbecue • Coos Bay Jazz Festival • Rolling Hills Casino • Hangtown Jazz Festival (Placerville) • Chico Heart Walk • Jackson Jazz Festival • Paradise Performing Arts Center • Gold Country Casino • Tehama County Fair • Feather Falls Casino • Glenn County Fair • Megalia Community Center

Our Latest CD features a bunch of “good old good ones” and a King Cotton Jazz Band Original

Our Third CD continues the King Cotton tradition and philosophy. When we started in 1991 we wanted to play Dixieland Jazz in the style we heard during the traditional jazz revival in the 1950’s when most of the great artists from the golden age were still active. “Fat Boy” rolls along with classic tunes from the 1920’s, vocals, and danceable four-beat rhythms:

Pennies From heaven/My Blue Heaven, Lady Be Good, Am I Blue? Blue Skies, Coquette, Marie, Sweet Lorraine, Fat Boy*, Baby Won’t

You Please Come Home, Angry, Sleepy Time Down South

Our Band

George Fiedler (p) is the backbone of the rhythm section. He hails from Red Bluff and likes his music and his weather hot.

Les “Blues Boy” Webb (tb) is a fixture in the Chico blues scene and performs regularly in show band settings.

Randy Reaves (b) is a professional musician with eclectic taste and long experience in rock and country music. Addicted to

Show tunes.

Dwayne Ramsey (reeds) learned this music listening to records and live radio broadcasts from the Club hangover. He plays regularly in

San Francisco.

Mike Ross (d) drives the band forward with an unerring sense of time and is a highly regarded Marin County drummer.

Craig Strode (tpt) and leader is well known in Chico and Northern California for his Cottonwood Band.

Earlier CD’s

What It Is Today

San Francisco Bay Blues, What it is Today*, San Antonio Rose, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? When You’re Smiling Sister Kate, Struttin’ with some barbecue I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter, Black and Blue, Shine, Honeysuckle Rose, Bill Bailey

Is it True What They Say About Dixie?

Ballin’ the Jack, There’ll Be Some Changes Made, I found a new Baby, C’est Si Bon, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Exactly Like You, I lost the Best Part of Me*, Rosetta, Darktown Strutter’s Ball, Is it True What they Say About Dixie? What a Wonderful World

Please Don’t Talk About Me when I’m Gone, You’re Nobody T’il Somebody Loves You, KCJB Anthem*

*King Cotton Originals

Recording Paradise Performing Arts Center