Steve Call’s Hot 5 “Pure Dixieland”

The New Hot 5’s (NH5) first performances were in France in 2009. Since then they have returned to France for multiple appearances and have performed in Utah, Nevada, New York, and the Dominican Republic. The NH5 was created by Dr. Steve Call, Emeritus Professor of Music at Brigham Young University (BYU).
When returning to France in 2011, the NH5 was preparing to play a show at a small country hotel in Autrans, Steve noticed a lovely herd of dairy cows in a beautiful pasture next to the venue and decided to play his tuba for them. The amazing bovine response was recorded and later uploaded to YouTube. Overnight the  video went viral and was for a time the “most viewed” jazz video and cow video on the website.
Tubist and Bandleader, Dr. Steve Call is currently Adjunct Professor of Music at Utah’s Snow College. He taught low brass instruments and Jazz Studies at Brigham Young University for 39 years, retiring in 2018. He has presented many clinics and workshops on brass instrumental performance and traditional jazz education. His academic work includes published research with regard to cornetist, Bobby Hackett’s improvisational technique, adapting principles of his approach to teaching traditional jazz improvisation. Steve has also published materials with about to the role of the tuba in the history of jazz.
Clarinetist, Clark Burnside also plays with the Powder River Irregulars Jazz Band in Fort
Collins, Colorado. While he enjoys playing and teaching the clarinet, his day job is designing computer chips for Intel Corporation.
Trumpeter, Dr. Daniel Henderson teaches composition and jazz studies at BYU Hawaii.  He has served on the faculty of Harvard University and the New England Conservatory of Music. The orchestration style of Billy May was the topic of his award-winning doctoral dissertation at the New England Conservatory and continues to be an aspect of his current research.
Trombonist, Dr. Brian Woodbury teaches jazz studies at the University of Utah. He is an active freelance musician in the Salt Lake City area. Brian recently completed is Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Colorado un Boulder.
Tenor Banjoist, Joshua Payne is the only 100% full-time performing musician in the NH5. He plays guitar and leads a popular jazz trio and composes and directs spontaneous concerts of the Joshua Payne Orchestra in and around Los Angeles.