Bryce Edwards' Turn-of-the-Century Music

Bryce Edwards' Turn-of-the-Century Music

Author: WPKN, Jim Motavalli December 10, 2025 Duration: 23:49

Bryce Edwards is a musician and cabaret artist reviving traditional jazz and popular music from the early 20th century. A vaudevillian troubadour, Edwards is a unique vocalist that takes equal cues from the crooners and soft singers of the late 1920s and early 30s and from the bombastic voices of the acoustic phonograph era, as well as an instrumentalist who plays banjo, ukulele, tenor guitar, and mandolin in the modernistic jazz idiom. Leading a hot combination featuring the talents of extraordinary jazzman Scott Ricketts (cornet) and Grammy award winner Conal Fowkes (piano, upright bass), Edwards revels in the idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the sweet and raucous music of the 1910s, 20s, and 30s; Bryce brings his singular verve and sensibility to songs made famous by great artists such as Cliff Edwards, Gene Austin, Jack Teagarden, Rudy Vallée, and Bing Crosby. 


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