Statesmen Of Jazz

A modern conceptualization for a group of senior jazz musicians. Statesmen of Jazz was a swing jazz group started in 1994 by the American Federation of Jazz Societies.

The group performs as a sextet, but it has a rotating, all-star membership comprising about thirty musicians. The group released its first album in 1994 for Arbors Records, performed at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee in 1995, and toured Japan in 1997.[1]

When the group started, all of its members were over the age of sixty-five.