Dr. Jazz

Bio

Dr. Jazz is the stage name of Buffalo reed player Brian Bauer, who leads the trad-jazz group also billed as Dr. Jazz & the Jazzbugs. His GigSalad booking page says he has played the Buffalo area for more than fifty years, including dates with Leon Redbone, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hammond Jr., and that his first love is 1920s jazz on clarinet and saxophones from bass to sopranino. JazzBuffalo has called him a regional treasure and noted that his duo album Medical Record with Tyler Westcott is the most extensive recording of his reed work as a leader. Nietzsche’s books “Dr. Jazz & the Jazzbugs” on the first and third Sunday of the month for trad jazz and blues in the front room.

The band

• Brian Bauer

  Buffalo clarinetist, saxophonist, and singer known as Dr. Jazz. He leads Dr. Jazz and the Jazzbugs and has recorded the duo album Medical Record with Tyler Westcott.

• Ed Woods

  Buffalo bassist and vocalist in Dr. Jazz’s group. The booking bio says he met Bauer in the 1990s in the R&B band The Jump Kings and later studied with Ted Meyer and in workshops with Al Tinney.

• Will Wilson

  Banjoist, guitarist, and vocalist in Dr. Jazz’s group. His booking bio says he specialized in early jazz, co-founded Toronto’s Rainbow Gardens Orchestra, and was a banjo soloist with the Niagara Symphony’s 1998 Gershwin salute.