Happy Birthday
Trad Jazz Version

Welcome to the Happy Birthday Trad Jazz Version! Want to craft birthday wishes capturing the joyful spirit and classic charm of old New Orleans for someone you adore? This lively Trad Jazz tune adds wonderful vintage fun to your greeting! Use this upbeat style in a Birthday Slideshow celebrating timeless moments, or make their day truly swing by sending a personalized Singing Selfie featuring authentic Dixieland flair! Hope your greeting makes their birthday celebration a genuinely swinging time!

Trad Jazz
Singing Selfie

Trad Jazz
Birthday Slideshow

Trad Jazz Birthday Wishes

Make your birthday card extra fun with our stylized Trad Jazz Birthday Wishes. Once you find the perfect one, click Singing Selfie or Birthday Slideshow to add it to your card.

Another year, another solo! 🎷 Keep improvising through life and make sure today hits all the high notes—and the dessert table. 🍰🥁

Happy Birthday! 🎺 May your day swing harder than a New Orleans street parade and your cake stack higher than a stack of jazz records. 🎂🎶

Hope your day’s got more rhythm than a ragtime piano and more laughs than a band trying to keep up with the drummer! 🎶🎂

You’re not getting older, just adding more notes to your melody. 🎶 Hope your candles don’t need a brass band to blow them out! 🎂🎷

Happy Birthday! 🎶 May your year ahead be filled with warm melodies, heartfelt harmonies, and moments as rich as a trad jazz brass section. ❤️🎷

Happy Birthday! 🎷 Like the best jazz, may your life keep improvising with beauty, rhythm, and memories that last forever. 🎶💙

Here’s to a birthday as smooth as a clarinet line and as lively as a banjo keeping the beat. 🎤🎶 May your day bring all the joy you deserve!

May your birthday be a melody of love, laughter, and swinging good times, with plenty of harmony from those who care for you. 🎺✨

Wishing you a birthday as timeless as a Louis Armstrong solo and as full of joy as a Second Line celebration. 🎺🎂 Cheers to you!

ARTIST PROFILE: Leonie Evans

“Like nothing else I’ve ever heard in my life” “I was just blown away with her” Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 “

Leonie Evans was born & raised on the edge of South East London & Kent. She’s a multi instrumentalist, singer songwriter and occasional session vocalist, teacher & event organiser who has been performing since the age of 5 & has never stopped.

Rather than embarking on a conventionally “successful” album/tour/album/tour/… career as someone with such a rare voice, writing talent and stage presence so effortlessly could, Leonie Evans has chosen to do something much more interesting and fun. Her output to date has included two exquisite albums of dreamy, jazzy, unclassifiable song craft as part of the Bristol-based quartet Rae, plus a handful of small runs of homemade CDs she’s sold along the way of her endless, meandering tour of everywhere (in recent years, she’s been engaged in something like a micro scale version of Bob Dylan’s “Never Ending Tour”, travelling around Britain and Europe with occasional excursions to Japan and the USA).

Leonie Evan’s Website

An introduction to Trad Jazz

Trad jazz, short for “traditional jazz”, is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, based on the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz style.

Traditional jazz, or “trad jazz,” takes us back to the lively roots of jazz in early 20th-century New Orleans. With its infectious rhythms, collective improvisation, and soulful melodies, it was shaped by legends like Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Jelly Roll Morton. Borrowing elements from ragtime, blues, and marching bands, trad jazz introduced a joyful and dynamic style that laid the groundwork for all jazz to come.

Even in today’s world, the genre’s timeless charm continues to resonate. From toe-tapping Dixieland tunes to spirited street parades, trad jazz captures the essence of celebration and spontaneity, connecting generations through its unfiltered, joyous energy.

So let’s sing Happy Birthday, Trad Jazz style, and celebrate your day with swinging rhythms, lively improvisations, and a melody as timeless as the joy of the moment. Here’s to a toe-tapping year ahead!

Pioneers of Trad Jazz

1. Louis Armstrong – Defined jazz with his virtuosic trumpet playing and improvisation; What a Wonderful World.
2. Jelly Roll Morton – One of jazz’s earliest composers, blending ragtime and improvisation; King Porter Stomp.
3. Bessie Smith – Known as the “Empress of the Blues,” her vocal style deeply influenced jazz; St. Louis Blues.
4. Duke Ellington – Innovated jazz orchestration with sophisticated arrangements; Take the A Train.
5. King Oliver – Early jazz bandleader and mentor to Louis Armstrong; Dipper Mouth Blues.
6. Sidney Bechet – Virtuosic clarinet and soprano saxophonist, one of the first jazz soloists; Petite Fleur.
7. Lil Hardin Armstrong – Pianist, composer, and arranger who shaped the sound of early jazz; Struttin’ with Some Barbecue.
8. Fats Waller – Pioneering stride pianist and entertainer; Ain’t Misbehavin’.
9. Kid Ory – Trombonist and composer, a key figure in New Orleans jazz; Muskrat Ramble.
10. Ma Rainey – Known as the “Mother of the Blues,” she brought blues into early jazz; See See Rider.