JAZZ

A team of elderly Chinese jazzmen who stopped playing their favorite music for 30 years after their country’s communist revolution will be honored guests at the 16th Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee, May 26-29. Members of the Peace Hotel Old Jazz Band played in Shanghai before the 1949 revolution, having learned jazz by listening to Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller records, and from the few American bands that visited China. The Chinese group will be one of 15 foreign bands playing at the Sacramento jazz show, which began with 21 jazz groups and 8,000 visitors when it was launched in 1974. Last year it drew more than 100 musical groups and 110,000 paying guests. The four-day show goes on at seven sites, four in central Sacramento and three in outlying areas. The Soviet Union’s Leningrad Dixieland Ensemble is also due to perform.