Formed in Dayton in 1981, Dave Greer's Classic Jazz Stompers started life with a weekly gig at Langtree's, a restaurant and club under the Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton. Now hailed as "one of the best jazz bands playing today" by The American Rag, this modern-day 'territory band' specializes in jazz from the 1920s and 1930s, playing the timeless music of such titans as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet and their contemporaries from the time when classic jazz was evolving into small band swing. The exceptional combination of Chris Moore (cornet), Erik Greiffenhagen (clarinet, tenor and soprano saxophone), Gordon Moore (trombone) and Greg Dearth (alto saxophone, clarinet, violin) gives the Classic Jazz Stompers a formidable—and very versatile—four-man front line, a rarity in traditional jazz bands of this size. The band has released seven albums on its own CJS label, the most recent of which is Bipolar Jazz, recorded in 2007.