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Alabama
    Alexander City area:
       [ The Jazz Masters ]
    Auburn area:
       [ Auburn Knights Orchestra ]
       [ CaterPillars of the Community ]
    Birmingham - Fultondale-Pelham area etc.:
       [ esoteric ]
       [ The Joe Giattina Orch. ]
       [ The Leftovers Band ]
    Clanton area:
       [ Byaxident Band And Show ]
    Huntsville area: (includes Laceys Spring, etc.)
       [ Alabama Blues Brothers ]
       [ The Band In Demand ]
       [ Fifteen Minute Heros ]
       [ Kozmic Mama ]
       [ Pla Station ]
    Montgomery area:
       [ The Montgomeray Recreators ]
    Riverside area:
       [ The De'ja Blue Big Band ]
    Tuscaloosa area:
       [ Salty Papa Blues Band ]

Alaska
Currently no entries.

Arizona
    Phoenix - Scottsdale area:
       [ The Avtones ]
       [ Lynn Robert's Swinging Saxes ]
       [ Route 66 Band ]
       [ Smooth Junction ]
       [ Sonoran Serenade Big Band ]
       [ Supervibe ]
       [ The Swingtips ]

Arkansas
    Conway area:
       [ The Real Band ]
    Fayetteville area:
       [ The Cat'z Meow Combo ]
    Springdale area:
       [ Bella Vista Orch. ]

California
    Anaheim (and Orange County) area:
       [ Danny D Sinatra Tribute ]
       [ John Peace Super Band ]
    Auburn area:
       [ Moonlight Swing Orch. ]
    Bakersfield -Palmdale area:
       [ Rex's Band ]
       [ Rhythmm-Epkins & Mind Body & Soul Band ]
    Chico and Paradise area:
       [ Swing Kings Orch. ]
       [ Lou Invernon Orch. ]
       [ Skyliners ]
    Cupertino/San Jose area:
       Please See San Jose Area below.
    Fresno-Visalia-Porterville-Bakersfield area:
       [ Mind, Body and Soul ]
       [ Ralph Scaffidi Orch. ]
       [ Fabulous Studio Band ]
    Inland Empire - San Bernadino, Yucaipa etc. area:
       [ Citrus Swing Orch. ]
       [ Cool Daddy Swing Orch. ]
       [ Let's Dance Big Band ]
    Irvine area: (included San Juan Capistrano)
       [ Max Bishop Big Band ]
       [ Pete Jacobs and The Wartime Radio Revue ]
    Livermore (also see San Francisco Bay and San Jose) Area:
       [ Full Spectrum Jazz ]
    Los Angeles/Long Beach/Castaic/Huntington Beach/Yorba Linda/Ventura County, etc:
       [ Rex Allen Big Band ]
       [ Ray Anthony Orchestra ]
       [ Mike Barone Big Band ]
       [ Bill Berry and the L.A. Band ]
       [ The Big Band Boys ]
       [ Big Brian and the Blues Busters ]
       [ Blue Pacific Swing Band ]
       [ Blue Plate Special Orch. ]
       [ Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries ]
       [ Judy Chamberlain Jazz and Swing Orchestra ]
       [ Justice Daniels and Blue Lightnin' ]
       [ Dear Jon ]
       [ Dial M Productions ]
       [ Doc Anello & the Swing Machine ]
       [ Bill Elliott Swing Orch. ]
       [ The Esquires ]
       [ Freddy and Friends Big Band ]
       [ The Forty Something Band ]
       [ Gold Coast Gold ]
       [ Good Vibrations - Los Angeles Wedding Band ]
       [ Grand Junction Band ]
       [ Icons Show ]
       [ Kasey and the Nightlife Band ]
       [ Great American Swing Band ]
       [ Hollyood Canteen Swing Band ]
       [ Horace Heidt, Jr. & his New Heidts Orch. ]
       [ Dave Johnson Big Band ]
       [ Mark Masters Jazz Orch. ]
       [ Billy May Orch. ]
       [ Ladd McIntosh Big Band ]
       [ Mora's Modern Rhythmists ]
       [ Henry Mora Orch. ]
       [ MRSD ]
       [ The Music Connection Orch. ]
       [ Bob Noval Orch. ]
       [ The Oozie Blues and The Legendary Joe Houston ]
       [ Ovation Horns & Orchestra ]
       [ Razzmatazz ]
       [ Red and the Redhots ]
       [ Eddie Reed Orch. ]
       [ Kim Richmond and The Concert Jazz Orch. ]
       [ Sharp Sounds Big Band ]
       [ Jack Sheldon Orch. ]
       [ Kenny Sheldon Orch. ]
       [ Speak Easy Spies ]
       [ Swamp Gators, The ]
       [ Swing Cats Big Band ]
       [ Swing City Jazz Orch. ]
       [ Swing Things, The ]
       [ SwingMasters ]
       [ Swingsilver ]
       [ Bill Tole Orch. ]
       [ Gary Tole and The Legends of Swing ]
       [ Randy Van Horne Alumni Association ]
       [ Zera Vaughan Orch. ]
       [ Chris Walden Big Band ]
       [ Tracy Wells and his Big Swing Band ]
       [ Westside Jazz Ensemble ]
       [ Scott Whitfield Jazz Orch. ]
       [ Ashley Williams Big Band ]
       [ Jay Wimmer and the Big Band All Stars ], tours Palm Springs, Irvine and San Diego.
       [ Wiseguys Big Band Machine, The ]
    Menlo Park area:, Please see "San Francisco".
    Monrovia area:
       [ Mike Silverman's Silver Frog Jazz Band ]
    Monterrey area:
       [ Michelle Kiba and Aloha Style ]
    Paradise and Chico area:
       [ Lou Invernon Orch. ]
    Redding - Shasta area:
       [ Straight Ahead Big Band ]
    Sacramento area: (including Placerville, etc.)
       [ 30's-40's-50's Dance Band ]
       [ Second Wind Band ]
       [ Shelley Burns and Avalon Swing ]
       [ Solomon Douglas Swingtet ]
       [ ESSEX ]
       [ John Skinner Band ]
       [ Skyliners, The ]
       [ SwingMasters ]
    San Bernadino area: Please see "Inland Empire" listing above.
    San Diego area:
       [ Ray Barrie Big Band ]
       [ Del Bybee Big Band ]
       [ "Jazz Project" Big Band, The ]
       [ Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, The ]
       [ Mirage Big Band Orch. ]
       [ Swing Shift ]
       [ Megan West Swingin' Big Band ]
    San Francisco area: (also Livermore, Menlo Park, San Jose, San Joaquin Valley)
       [ Rex Allen's Big Band ]
       [ Bay Area Big Band ]
       [ Russ Button's Swing Orch. ]
       [ Chazzcats, The ]
       [ Joe Ferrari Big Band and Combo. ]
       [ Scott Harris Big Band ]
       [ Dale Head and the Swing Society ]
       [ Timmie Hesla Big Band ]
       [ Indigo Swing ]
       [ The David Levin Swing Band with Regina Otto ]
       [ Magnolia Jazz Band ]
       [ Jeff Massanari Group ]
       [ New Oakland Jazz Orch. ], formerly Alice Arts Center Jazz Orch.
       [ Richard Olsen Big Band ]
       [ Lee Press-on and The Nails ]
       [ San Francisco Starlight Orch. ]
       [ Starduster Orch. ]
       [ Swing Fever Jazz and Swing Band ]
       [ Swing Solution Big Band ]
       [ The Seventh Season ]
       [ The Time Bandits ]
       [ Bill Travis Orch. ]
       [ Unicorns Dance Band ]
       [ Mike Vax Orch. ]
    San Joaquin Valley/Silicon Valley/Tracy/San Francisco, Bay Area, etc):
       [ Tracy Swing Band ]
    San Jose area (Cupertino/Silicon Valley/San Francisco):
       [ Christine Ferrari's Swing Society ]
       [ Mike Sloan Big Band ]
       [ Musician's Warehouse Big Band, The ]
       [ The Serenaders ]
       [ Sultans of Swing Big Band, The ]
       [ Bo Williams' Swing Machine ]
    Santa Cruz area:
       [ The ISLAND BREEZE Band ]
    Santa Rosa area:
       [ "A Swinging Affair" ]
       [ "Go Down Swingin' ]
    Sonoma County (Napa Valley, Healdsburg, etc):
       [ Starlight Swing ]

Colorado
    Boulder area:
       [ Boulder Big Band ]
    Colorado Springs area: (often includes Pueblo area - see below)
       [ New Century Big Band ]
    Denver - Broomfield, Littleton, Lakewood, etc. area:
       [ Hot Tomato Swing and Dance Big Band ]
       [ Metropolitan Jazz Orch. ]
       [ Stephen Paul Orch. ]
       [ Quemando Salsa Orchestra ]
       [ John Williams Orch ]
    Pueblo area: (often includes Colorado Springs area - see above)
       [ Dwight Shaw Big Band, The ]
    Trinidad area:
       [ Trinidaires, The ]

Connecticut (Note: Bands in the New York City, metroplex also tour Connecticut and Eastern Pennsylvania. AND - Connecticut Bands will often tour to New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and beyond.)
    Essex area:
       [ Bob Hughes Big Band ]
    Hartford - Covington area:
       [ Dick Campo Big Band ]
       [ The Little Big Band ]
    New Haven area:
       [ Cesarios & Salsamore ] (also in Canada/Florida/Carribean)
       [ Dick Campo Big Band ]
       [ Galvanized Jazz Band ]
       [ The Swing Cats ]
       [ Ken Todd Orchestras ]
    New London - Groton - Noank area:
       [ Dick Campo Big Band ]
       [ The Cartells ]

Delaware Please note that bands in the Washington, D.C., and Maryland, areas usually tour all of Delaware also. MOST Delaware bands tour to DC, PA, NJ, NY, and MD
    Newark area:
       [ The Serenaders ]
    Wilmington area:
       [ Jimmy Cara Orchestras ]

Florida
    Area Unknown:
       [ Sapphire Kings Blues Orch. ]
       [ Jerry Wayne Orch. ]
    Boca Raton - Delray Beach area:
       [ Horn-A-Plenty Swing Band ]
    Fort Lauderdale area:
       [ Donna Allen and Company ]
    Hollywood area:
       [ Romance with a light swing ]
    Inverness area:
       [ Encore Swing Band ]
    Key West area:
       [ Paradise Big Band ]
    Melbourne (Palm Bay, etc) area:
       [ The Regents ]
    Miami - Fort Lauderdale - Boynton Beach, etc. area:
       [ Cesarios & Salsamore ] (also in Canada/Florida/Carribean)
       [ Gary Lawrence & his Sizzling Syncopators ]
       [ Barry Mann Orch. ]
       [ Goldcoast Society Danceband ]
       [ Lynne Meryl Band ]
       [ Bob Wilbur Big Band ]
       [ Lew Wille & the Snapdragons ]
    Orlando area:
       [ Bill Allred's Classic Jazz Band ]
       [ Dick Cully Big Band ]
       [ Kid Dutch and New Orleans Music ]
       [ L C Swing Big Band ]
       [ LEFT of Gray ]
       [ Perseverance Brass Band ]
       [ Paul Vesco Orchestra ]
       [ Mark Wayne Big Band ]
    Palm Bay area:
       [ The Regents Orch. ]
    Palm Beach area:
       [ Big Band Hall of Fame Orch. ]
       [ Tommy Dorsey Orch., with Buddy Morrow ]
       [ Drootin Brothers Band ]
       [ Ted Knight Big Band ]
    Pensacola - Ft. Walton Beach area:
       [ White Sands Orchestra ]
    Sarasota/Manatee Counties
       [ The Bay Band ]
       [ Orquesta Los Soneros (Big Latin Band) ]
    Sebring area:
       [ Highlandaires Big Band ]
    St. Augustine area:
         [ EZ Street Band ]
    Tallahasee area:
       [ The Royal Garden Jazz Band ]
       [ Tallahasee Swing ]
    Tampa Bay - St. Petersburg -Clearwater area:
       [ Bill Evans Orch. ]
       [ Lorrie Hafer and The Music of Your Life ]
       [ High Stakes - The Derby Lane Band ]
       [ Sonny LaRosa and America's Youngest Jazz Band ]
       [ Dan McMillion Jazz Orch. ]
       [ Shades of Blue Orch. ]
       [ Bob Zimmerman Orch. ]
    Vero Beach area:
       [ Parke Frankenfield 15 Piece Big Band ], and smaller Dixieland Group.

Georgia
    Athens area:
       [ The Artie Ball Swing Band ]
       [ Dirty Sanchez & the Pancho Villas ]
    Atlanta area:
       [ Atlanta Blue Notes ]
       [ Atlanta Seventeen ]
       [ Atlanta Swing Orchestra ]
       [ Blue Sky ]
       [ Capitol City Xpress ]
       [ Crystal and The Cruizers ]
       [ Deluxe Band ]
       [ Laigh Langley and his Orch. ]
       [ Tommie Macon and the Gentle Men of Jazz ]
       [ Bob Martin and The Take Note Big Band ]
       [ Peachtree Jazz Edition ]
       [ The Sentimental Journey Orch. ]
       [ The Usual Suspects ]
       [ The Victory Jazz Orch. ]
    Augusta area:
       [ Rolerboy ]
    Cartersville area:
       [ The Etowah Jazz Society ]
    Columbus area:
       [ The Cavaliers Orch. ]
    Macon - Kathleen area:
       [ Georgia Big Band ]
    Savannah - Waycross - Jekyll Island area:
       [ The BBs Swing Express Big Band of Savannah, GA. ]
       [ The Jekyll Big Band ]
       [ John Bell Big Band ]

Hawaii
    Honolulu area:
       [ Jazz Hawaii Big Band ]

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