The Great Excelsior Jazz Band

"[2] In a larger sense, their style was summed up by sax player Bob Wilber who said “We didn't want to imitate their records.

[8] In 1964 the Great Excelsior Jazz Band began two year long run playing at the club Pete's Poop Deck in Pioneer Square.

[9][10] On Sunday, April 21, 1968, there was a "Media Mash" at the Eagles Auditorium, featuring the Great Excelsior Jazz Band along with other several Seattle bands including The Magic Fern, Time Machine, Canterbury Tales, Tall Timber Boys, and Blues Feedback, playing from noon to midnight.

They created musical radio spots, often using penny whistle, washboard and kazoo, and also appeared at events, including one at the Seattle Zoo (Warren G. Harding Bandstand, behind the Ape House).

In the news spot for that event, the columnist Emmett Watson refers to the candidate as "Richard AC-DC Greene.

"[12] October 29, 1968 [13][14] On May 2, 1969, The Great Excelsior Jazz Band played on the boat Sightseer, on a Lake Washington cruise from 8:00 p.m. to midnight.

[18] The building housing the Jazz Gallery had been built as a private residence in 1916, with a distinctive tower suggesting medieval days.

[22] The Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society and the Great Excelsior Band appeared in many venues the next several years, including The Blue Banjo, The Bombay Bicycle Shop, The Russian Center, The University Tower Hotel, and others, before finally settling into the Mountaineers Club (300 3rd Ave W) for weekly events into the mid-1980s.

[23] In early 1978 The Great Excelsior Band began a one night each week gig at Skipper's Tavern (2307 Eastlake E) that lasted into the mid-1980.

They played a reunion gig, sponsored by the Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society, on July 16, 1995, at the Mountaineer's Club.

Skip McDaniel played bass, and appears on the LP Great Excelsior Jazz Band Roast Chestnuts.