The Maryborough Traditional Jazz Ensemble has been around the Jazz scene for many years playing at various festivals and Jazz Clubs throughout Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. They are well known for their foot tapping/dancing music.
Their range consists of 1920s/1930s music as well as a lot of Australian composed tunes and old standards with a Jazz flavour. They have a huge range of tunes with a varied style including some Latin American and Glenn Miller tunes. The personnel has changed over the years and the current line-up is as follows:-
Ken Collins - Trumpet/Vocals Barry Currie - Reeds/Vocals Bill Beasley - Trombone/Vocals Bob Franklin - Keyboard/Vocals Paul Emery - Bass Bryan Hodges - Drums.