This group was founded 1974 with clarinet-player Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
as the leader.
Playing Chicago Style Jazz and starting their activity mainly in Osaka and environs,
the south Side was a professional Dixieland Jazz Band unique, in Japan. Since
their founding, they have been in great demand,
doing concerts and recording with foreign artists like Keith Smith, Ted Thomas
and many others, including the late Don Ewell, Ralf Sutton,
Wild Bill Davison.
In 1984 they toured Japan, performing in five major city. The same year, they
recorded on LP titled “South Side Wind” and issued on Work
Shop Records. |
