Pinstripe Suit,” “The Jitters,” “Go-Daddy-O,” “Minnie the Moocher,” and “You & Me & The Bottle Makes Three,” classy suits and hair slicked back, the group recalls an earlier time.

The band, which was at the forefront of a swing revival, easily blends together the classic American sounds of jazz, swing and Dixieland. Now, 30 years later, the group still has its original core line-up of Morris on lead vocals and guitar, Kurt Sodergren on drums, Dirk Shumaker on double bass and vocals, Andy Rowley on baritone sax and vocals, Glen “The Kid” Marhevka on trumpet, Karl Hunter on sax and clarinet and Joshua Levy on piano. Collins wrote “To the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy” and Morris picked up the name for the band he was forming.

When co-founder Scotty Morris went to a concert by blues giant Albert Collins, he asked for an autograph. It marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival onto the scene of the group that made swing cool again.īig Bad Voodoo Daddy was formed in Ventura, California in the 1990s, and was given its name by a musical legend. This year is a big one for the swing/jazz band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

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