Ragwax per­for­mance brings fresh vi­gour to vin­tage 1900s-1940s jazz. He re­in­ter­prets and incor­po­rates blues, jump blues, hot jazz, a bit of rocka­billy, ori­gi­nal, and mo­dern songs in­to his unique yet cu­rious­ly fa­mi­liar sound. The re­sul­ting pre­sen­ta­tion is pro­vo­ca­tive and dis­tinctly reso­nant.

Jazz has come to mean music that is snob­bish­ly so­phis­ti­ca­ted, bland and boring. Vis­ua­lise a bunch of musicians im­pres­sing each other, while stu­diou­sly ig­no­ring the audience. On the other hand, by original design, dixie­land, hot jazz and Tin Pan Alley engaged people and got them moving and dancing. As a con­tem­po­ra­ry artist in his twenties, Ragwax plays songs that are en­ter­tai­ning and almost a hun­dred years old. He re­vi­ves and re­news his­to­ric jazz stan­dards, proving them to be ex­ci­ting and truly time­less.

While playing bars, clubs, hotels and res­tau­rants to make a living, patrons expect the usual clas­sic rock or top 40 for live en­ter­tain­ment, but Ragwax catches them off-guard and they'll dance, buy drinks, and show a per­so­nal in­ter­est be­tween sets. There is a no­stal­gia and time­less­ness to his per­for­mance that gets a crowd ex­cit­ed and en­ga­ged in a re­fresh­ing way. Ragwax en­ter­tain­ment is a rare treat, some­thing people would ty­pi­cal­ly have to go out of their way to find.

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