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The Dean Martinis

About Me

Hey, Daddy-O, let me tug your coat about The Dean Martinis. Put these cats in the mix and you'll have an instant lip-smacking, hand-clapping, boogie-your-woogie good time. Stirring up a heady brew of jump blues, swinging jazz, and 1950's New Orleans R&B, The Dean Martinis keep the jitterbugs jumping and the lindy hoppers hopping, yet manage to give the wallflowers something to hang their hats on. When they aren't playing the music, chances are they are out dancing to it. So, if you need your joint to jump, shake things up with The Dean Martinis!

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Member Since: 1/13/2006
Band Website: http://www.thedeanmartinis.com
Band Members: Geno Haffner - piano, vocals
Peter Roze - guitar, vocals
John Owen - bass, vocals
Chris Buck - percussion
Ben Graves - sax, harmonica, etc.
Influences: Count Basie and the Kansas City Seven, Louis Jordan, Professor Longhair, Chuck Berry, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Room Full of Blues, Asleep at the Wheel
Sounds Like: Saturday night in a southern Louisiana juke-joint circa 1953
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Jump, Jive & Swing Feb. 21, 2009

Thanks to everyone who came to Jump, Jive & Swing last night. Despite the inclement weather, we had a fantastic crowd, including a contingent from Huntsville, AL! Just as dancers enjoy dancing to a go...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:52:00 GMT

The French Quarter 1-12-08

Thank you to everyone who came out to the French Quarter Cafe this past Saturday to see us with Denise Daly. For those of you who missed it, man what a show! Dennis LeCour, the owner, has really clean...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:10:00 GMT

fooBar Friday June 15

Hey-ho, DaddyO! A tremendous thank you to all of you who came out to fooBar this past Friday. Dennis Taylor and April Caspari came on like gangbusters and brought down the house. Per audience request,...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:24:00 GMT

fooBar Fridays

fooBar Fridays to off to a great start last night, discounting a few glitches. fooBar used to be a little redneck beer-and-a-shot dive called Harold's, the kind of place that Metro's finest visited on...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:08:00 GMT

Thee FooBar

Those of you who happen to notice the bulletins posted on this website, especially those posted by the writer, will have seen that The Dean Martinis were to have played the FooBar last evening, and th...
Posted by on Sat, 12 May 2007 07:46:00 GMT

Benefit for the Linden Corner School

Last night, half of The Dean Martinis, specifically Geno Haffner and Peter Roze, played with Vivian Slade at the Estell Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, at a Cinco de Mayo party benefitting the Linden...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 07:47:00 GMT