ALAN FREDERICKSON JAZZ ENSEMBLE
(DENVER, COLORADO)

Alan Frederickson - Trombone, Vocals
Chas Bowles - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Vocals
Lance Acker - Reeds
Ray Leake - Piano
Rory Thomas - Banjo
Colin Gieg - Bass
Don Grove - Drums

This aggregation is Colorado's contribution to Summit Jazz and has participated every year since its formation eighteen years ago.  Three of the seven are professional musicians while the others have non-musical professions, but there is nothing amateurish about their sound.

You may expect spontaneity in their performance and on-stage behavior because of their leader's near frantic devotion to collective improvisation as opposed to highly structured arrangements.  Their reverence for classic jazz literature is apparent, yet their strongest feature is fresh, imaginative interpretations of later jazz and giving a jazz version on tunes not ordinarily associated with our idiom.

The AFJE plays at the Bull & Bush the first Sunday of each month.  When Alan, whose home is in Washington State, is not present due to exigencies of time and space, Chas Bowles renames the band to the "Alan Ain't Here Jazz Band".