Welcome to the official Blue Street Jazz Band website. Blue Street plays festivals all over the US from the entire northwest, California, Midwest, New England & Florida--even Canada, Mexico and Europe! It also plays for special events such as parties, conventions, church services, and other gatherings in the Central California area. The band plays various styles from Dixieland to Swing, Mardi Gras, "hot 20's," Gospel, and originals! In 2008 the band celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Check out Blue Street's latest CD, T'aint What You Do. This fabulous new recording contains such great cuts as Wolverine Blues, Panama Rag, South Rampart Street Parade, Down in Honky Tonk Town, Nevertheless, Mood Indigo, I'll See You In My Dreams, Baby Brown, Petite Fleur, I Can't Get Started, and more. This is a solid CD that no faithful Blue Street Jazz Band maniac should be without.
Dave Ruffner has a brand new CD out called Dixieland Trombone. This CD has most of the regular Blue Street members on it and showcases the trombone in various traditional jazz favorite. To purchase a copy download our order form or use our online store.
Blue Street also has a new CD in production. Check back in a few weeks to see when it will be released. The book, a 25 year history of the Blue Street Jazz Band, called Our Turn to Dance is also still available. The 224 page book tells the story of the Blue Street Jazz Band and has some great pictures of the band plus biographies about each of the current members of the band. Additionally, the book comes with a DVD featuring some Blue Street performances that were televised.
Finally, our online store is temporarily down due to a server move. A new and improved version of the store is in the works. Meanwhile, the pdf order form is still available from the menu.