The Dandenong Ranges Hot Jazz Orchestra plays popular music the way it really was played during the crazy decade of the 1920s; the “Jazz Age” when people sought to have fun, build a new world, be “thoroughly modern”, forget the hardships of the Great War and the ‘Spanish Flu’ global pandemic.

Our music is fun, fast, edgy, full of energy, romantic and carefree, played with the original instruments – nine or ten of us, playing saxophones, clarinets, violins, trumpets, trombone, banjo, bass and drums – with loads of spontaneity and improvisation laid over beautifully rich harmonies and backings.