Derry Jazz Festival '09

Hi Everybody, just a quick note and a bunch of pics from this years'
Derry Jazz Festival.

As usual it was the best ever in many ways. We played for the second
time at the Playtrail with 10 different schools from around Derry
attending and we also played for the first time at St. Patricks' School
which is the biggest primary school in Northern Ireland. It was also the
first time that all 830 kids had been in the same place at the same time
in the school's history.

We also appeared on two front pages in the news, played live on air on
Mark Patterson's show on BBC Foyle and also pegging it to Belfast one
afternoon between gigs to appear live on George Jones' show on U Radio.

We also ended up extending the festival by two days by starting a day
early with the first gig at the Gweedore Bar on Wednesday and the last
on the Monday in the Strand Bar. The reason for that is because we had
to fly back to London on Saturday to perform for the Variety Club
International conference opening night with Tony Hatch doing MC duties
(see the pic).

The photos can also be seen on our Facebook Album at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=105631&id=18718694107

See you soon!

The Jive Aces

The Road To Summertime Swing Pt.1 (Paris)

It's been a while since the last little adventure but this one is worth the wait (I hope!). Check out our the next thrilling episode of... "The Road To" here: http://htxt.it/BDXE

nice country boogie chillun' ? *http://blip.fm/~563v2

why only an excerpt? ? *http://blip.fm/~563sp

listening to "Caldonia - Jive Aces" ? *http://blip.fm/~5635w

Not sure where this comes from but just testing Blip out. ? *http://blip.fm/~56340

R.O.K.C. by Rolf Harris and the Jive Aces

Check out this video we threw together with Rolf Harris one afternoon...

The Big jive All dayer is ON ON ON tomorrow (Saturday 7th Feb)!!! check out the movie if you are in doubt... http://ping.fm/GQOQB

Road To Lakeside

Check out this piece of genius film making...



Alex =>

Ian and Peter with Eddie Izzard at the London Premier of Valkyrie

Ian and Peter with Eddie Izzard at the London Premier of Valkyrie

/"If I was to rate the Jive Aces album, firstly I would say FANTASTIC
and if I was on Dancing With the Stars or Strictly Come Dancing, I would
give it ELEVEN!

If you want to dance jive, if you want to dance lindy hop, if you want
to do swing, the Jive Aces music is prefect."/

*- Len Goodman*
Head Judge on Strictly Come Dancing
and Dancing With The Stars

/"The Jive Aces are the best show since Louis Prima."/

*- Keely Smith*
Singing legend

/"The best small band to come out of Britain in decades."/

*- Kenny Ball*
Jazz legend

The Jive Aces live on BBC Radio London on Christmas morning!

Hi everybody,
a very merry Christmas to everybody. The Jive Aces will be live on BBC radio London at 11am (GMT) tomorrow (25th!) morning so you fancy joining in the festive silliness then tune in to 94.9FM if you are in the Greater London area or on the internet at http://ping.fm/4h2MH and click on the "listen live" button.
All the best and see you soon.
The Jive Aces
http://ping.fm/4AdhX

We did a great radio show last night in Cardif which went out live on BBC Wales. Toni Prima guested on a couple of songs and they even had Keely Smith join in the interview. You can hear it for the next seven days on the BBC iPlayer, just click on the link below.

http://ping.fm/hx5Gf

The Jive Aces were top of the bill at the Grand Order of Water Rats Christmas Ball last Sunday performing to a veritable who's who of British talent and members of the entertainment industry.

The Waters Rats are a charitable association of top UK entertainers that started 120 years ago. Last year the Jive Aces played an early spot before Tony Christie and it was so successful that this year they were
asked back to headline.

Before and after the show they got to rub shoulders with the stars and listened to the speeches and stories they told during the dinner.

Amoungst the guests were Carry On star Barbara Windsor, Fawlty Tower's Andrew Sachs, magic man Paul Daniels and Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain.

One particular star that drew their attention was British rock n roll singer Jess Conrad who as you probably know was one of the British stars, along with Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Joe Brown, who toured with Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent on their famous UK tour. He was voted UK's favourite singer in 1961.

"Jess Conrad gave a great speech as he proposed the toast to the lady guests at the ball. He still looks great and has a great sense of humour", said lead singer Ian Clarkson. "The whole night was fun and the
atmosphere was amazing, despite being famous the guests were all really down to earth and friendly".

With King Rat Kaplan Kaye

With Paul Daniels and the lovely Debbie Mcgee

One half of the Chuckle Brothers with his recently won BAFTA Award

With Barbara Windsor

With the devilishly handsome Jess Conrad

With Nicko McBrain, Drummer for Iron Maiden

With June Whitfield

is happy the new album is finally coming out! (check http://ping.fm/FO3RV)

Bournemouth 14/11/08

http://ping.fm/v/iHjX3 - "Tonight the where at the Landmarc in Bournemouth. What a fantastic night of music and dancing. Tomorrow we're off to Croydon town centre to switch on the Christmas lights with Brian Blessed. Then it's down to Hove town hall for the Horror Ball, or horrible on of the two. Anyway see you here"

Next stop is the Croydon Xmas lights switch on with Brian Blessed and then tomorrow night (Sat) the Horror Ball at Hove Town Hall.

Last Week On Tour 6/11 - 9/11...

Wow, what a week! Firstly last Thursday we appeared in a huge charity show to over 1400 people in Barnsley alongside the Bachelors and a whole host of comedy legends including Cannon and Ball, Jimmy Cricket, Billy Pierce and the Grumbleweeds. Hanging out backstage was none other than Paul Shane (AKA Ted Bovis) of "Hi Di Hi" fame.

Saturday saw our first appearance at the Middleton Civic Centre. It was also our last as they are knocking it down in January. However all is well because they have built a bigger and better replacement already and I'm sure we'll be back there in the new year. Big thanks to Ian and Sheilagh Harltey for not only their help on the night but also 3 nights of great tea and crumpets!

Sunday saw us on a loooong drive down to the 10th anniversary Party Weekender in Warmwell. Great fun as always to see so many people on the dance-floor. Some of them were even dancing!

Check the gig guide for loads of updated gigs at http://ping.fm/4AdhX

Hi everybody,
It's been a looooong time coming but the Jive Aces brand new album,
"Recipe For Rhythm " is finally here on 8th December! It will be available from all good music outlets
such as HMV, iTunes, Amazon amongst many others. You can also directly pre-order the CD from the Jive Aces, contact sales@jiveaces.com for info.

The new album was produced by three-time Grammy award winning producer Emanule Ruffinengo and features a whole host of guests including legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea; Oscar nominated composer and jazz trumpeter Mark Isham; British trad-jazz legend Acker Bilk; daughter of two of the Jive Aces' heroes, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Toni Elizabeth Prima; Steve Lucky and Carmen Getit from the Rhumba Bums; Long time guitarist with John Barry and the man who created the James Bond
theme guitar sound, Vic Flick; Steel guitar wizard from California's Lucky Stars Jeremy Wakefield and more!

The songs featured are a combination of classic favourites and brand new original tunes, several of which have become live favourites.

Check out our 8-minute "Making Of" video, photos from the studio, the music video for the song "Fever" featuring dancers Darren and Lana from Strictly Dance Fever with choreography by Ryan Francois, audio samples from several tracks and even a free MP3 download of the first track on the album, "Aces Shuffle" at www.jiveaces.com/recipe.

New album, "Recipe For Rhythm" out on Dec 8th! www.jiveaces.com/recipe for more info.