Group has changed its name to the Vanguard Aces. They still play reguarly around the city. Ten-piece jazz band (with a five-piece horn section) plays regularly at Frankie's Blue Room (Wednesdays) -- Frankie's owner Riff Menza is the bands' manager -- and the Green Mill (Tuesdays) as well as Thursdays at Liquid, filling Chitown's burgeoning need for more suit-wearing jump blues/jazzmen. Says WCBR's Hambone's Blues Hour, "From the first note to last call, the Big Swing's relentless energy keeps everyone jitterbugging all over the dance floor."
Members include pianist Donny Nicholo (previously of the Mighty Blue Kings), Sam Burckhardt, and trombonist Daniel Sniderman. Frontman Eric "Shoutin'" Sheridan fronted a jump blues band in Washington D.C. for 14 years, before moving to Chicago.
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