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The Redwine Jazz Band performs popular music from the early part of the twentieth century. Their goal is the promotion, perpetuation, and performance of traditional jazz. The band can consist of two to seven musicians. The core of the band includes Ben, guitarist Tom Mitchell, and bassist John Previti.

Ben Redwine is an accomplished musician devoted to new classical music and old jazz, leading his own popular traditional-style jazz group, the Redwine Jazz Band. Ben retired in 2014, after a 27 year career with the US military band program, as e-flat clarinet soloist with the US Naval Academy Band in Annapolis, Maryland. He is a Selmer Paris performing artist, and a Canyes Xilema reed performing artist. He is a Lecturer in clarinet at The Catholic University of America, where he also serves as the assistant wind ensemble conductor. Ben has recorded for Mapleshade, Naxos, Big Kahuna, AmCam, and Vin Rouge record labels, and composed and performed new music soundtracks for 1920s era silent films, released on DVD box sets by All Day Entertainment. He has been a featured soloist at six International Clarinet Association ClarFests in Oklahoma, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Portugal, Baton Rouge, Italy, and is a freelance musician, performing with many classical and jazz orchestras in the Washington, DC region. Founder of the company RJ Music Group, Ben also manufactures quality products for discriminating clarinetists, including Gennusa mouthpieces and the Reed Wizard. 

Ben completed his first full-length compact disc recording on the Mapleshade record label, which was released in December, 2004. In October 2003, Ben was invited to be a featured performer at the China 2003 Music Convention in Shanghai, China. His performance there was hailed in the state sponsored music journal as "stellar." He has been featured as a soloist in 2004, playing the Molter e-flat clarinet Concerto #3, and the Weber Concertino, the latter with the "Villar del Arzobispo" symphonic band in Valencia, Spain. On February 6th, 2005, Ben performed a jazz recital and conducted master classes at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for the annual Single Reed Convention. In 2004, he presented the world premiere of a clarinet quintet written for him by acclaimed composer John Stephens. He subsequently performed this work, as well as others, in a full recital at the 30th Annual Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium in June, 2005. This quintet was recorded by Ben and the Sunrise Quartet and has been released on the AmCam Record Label.

Tom Mitchell is a hard driving jazz guitarist and singer. His "true to style" interpretations of this music make him a much sought after performer and teacher. From 1993 –2002 Tom toured with the legendary recording artist Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks across the United States and around the world. He played guitar on "Beatin' The Heat," the acclaimed CD release by Dan Hicks on Surfdog Records featuring guest appearances from Bette Midler, Ricki Lee Jones, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Brian Setzer. In March 2003, Tom was awarded the first annual "Musician to Musician" Grant given by Chamber Music Annapolis.      This grant enabled him to spend a month in Holland studying with master Gypsy guitarist, Fapy Lafertin. Tom's love of swing guitar shines brightly through his playing and his extensive knowledge and appreciation of jazz history and tradition, teamed with a whimsical improvisational style.

Award-winning bassist John Previti grew up in the Southern Maryland-D.C. area during the early sixties, immersed in the region’s bubbling cauldron of musical styles: swing, country, jazz, R&B, soul and the roots of rockabilly. He was famed Washington, DC guitarist Danny Gatton’s bass player for eighteen years, from 1976-1994. John’s first recording as a leader, “Swinging Lullabies For My Rosetta” (Mapleshade Records) has received tremendous reviews. Other recent recordings include a Tribute to Danny Gatton with Big Joe Mayer and Joe Stanley, and a swing session with John Cocuzzi, Alan Vaché and Big Joe. Over the years, John hass won a number of awards for his rare talent. These include WAMA "Wammie" awards for Musician of the Year, Instrumentalist of the Year, and Album of the Year.