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The Palace Avenue Dance Orchestra is an authentic and highly swinging 13-piece dance band (8 horns + violin) that performs special transcriptions and arrangements of music recorded and released mostly during the 1930s, with the emphasis on the early 30s when this size of band of popular.

The music that the band performs is mostly British and American dance band music chosen from this golden era of jazz, and there are feature numbers for all members of the band. The majority of the repertoire are real hidden gems that include the rich, haunting melodies of Isham Jones, Lew Stone, Ambrose and Jack Hylton, and distinctive and driving early 30s Fletcher Henderson, Nat Gonella, Cab Calloway, Jack Teagarden, Don Redman and Mills Blue Rhythm, all the way up to later 30s numbers from Artie Shaw, Goodman, Ellington and Dorsey. Hot numbers from Louis Armstrong's incredible 1930s Orchestra are recreated with aplomb, and there is also Jimmy Lunceford's blistering 300bpm+ White Heat, and Harlem Congo from Chick Webb included for especially for fast feet!

Let's Dance was a number first recorded by Benny Goodman in the mid 1930s which he used to open the show. Here we feature our incredible clarinetist Dave Shulman.

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