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N.Y. Times

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The New Orleans Jazz Vipers are a seven-piece swing band playing regularly to enthusiastic audiences both in their hometown of New Orleans and at festivals, Performing Arts Centers and clubs all over the world. The band's repertoire includes well-known favorites and obscure treasures from the songbooks of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dicky Wells, Benny Carter, and Count Basie, to name just a few.

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The Vipers new CD "Hope You're Comin' Back", won the 2006 Best of the
Beat Award for Best Traditional Jazz Album. The band has also won the 2005 Big Easy Award for Best Traditional Jazz Band as well as the 2004 "Best of the Beat" award for Best Traditional Jazz Album (for the album "Live on Frenchmen Street"). In 2001 and 2003 they won the "Best of the Beat" Award for Best Emerging Traditional Jazz Band. The band was voted one of the top three jazz bands in the 2004 Reader’s Poll in Where Y’at Magazine.
CBS Evening News Story, May 7, 2006