West End Jazz Band • Chicago

The Award-Winning West End Jazz Band To view the awards, click on the items below. Starr-Gennett Champion Award The Coon-Sanders Roodles Award The Jean Goldkette Award for Musical Excellence
		Current Happenings & News
		Flash!! Reopening of the Blue Lantern at Hudson Lake Grand Opening Bobbie’s Dockside Grill July 6, 2008, 1:00 p.m. (Chicago Time) See Upcoming Events Page for Details click here for details "Music on the Patio" Fine Dining at Don Roth's Blackhawk in Wheeling June 21, July 19, August 16, September 20 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 7th Annual Hudson Lake Train Trip Sunday, October 19, 2008 "Tickets on Sale Now" click here for details Now in our 12th Year Sunday Jazz Brunch at the Milk Pail 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Details

The jazz age, like the big band era, lasted only about a decade. But as it passed through the twenties, it was one of the wildest decades in the history of our country. It was the Roaring Twenties, the Age of Ballyhoo, easy money and discontent. The younger generation was on a breathless, energetic spree trying to rewrite all the rules in one brief decade. The jazz age produced more than just flappers, bath tub gin, hip flasks and speakeasies. Nothing caught the spirit of the twenties so expressively as the syncopated beat of jazz, and no one recreates it as well as the West End Jazz Band with genuine hot and sweet dance styles of the 1920s and the 1930s.