New Black Eagles Set
Standard for Quality
The New Black Eagle Jazz Band, considered by many to be among the world’s premier traditional New Orleans Jazz ensembles, still sets the standard in traditional jazz long after their beginnings 37 years ago at their longtime haunt the Sticky Wicket Pub in Hopkinton.
The seven-piece band showed it hadn't lost a beat recently at a cozy engagement at Ma Glockner's Restraurant in Bellingham, Ma. with Michael Peipman a last-minute addition sitting in for cornetist Tony Pringle.
In long history of the “Black Eagles” as their fans affectionately call them, the band has played to jazz audiences all over the world earning them the title of keepers of the flame for New Orleans jazz purists. Having played its first gig on board the Peter Stuyvesant, a boat moored in Boston Harbor, the band has evolved through the decades and personnel changes. In the early days, the Eagles were well-known features of Passim’s in Cambridge and the former Sticky Wicket.
In recent years, the band’s travels have included appearances with the Boston and Baltimore symphonies and the Scottish National Orchestra, as well as concert and club dates throughout Europe Canada and the U.S. The present band includes C.H. "Pam" Pameijer on drums, Barry Bockus on bass, Bob Pilsbury on piano and vocals, Peter Bullis on banjo, Stan Vincent on trombone, Tony Pringle on cornet and Billy Novick on alto sax, clarinet and soprano.
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