Alice Spencer & Her Monkey Butlers perform jazz and blues from the 1920's and 1930's, as well as original material.  The band is led by singer Alice Spencer, with Joe Cordi on piano (Giant City Sextet), Ben Saffer on clarinet and C-melody saxophone (Rubinchik's Yiddish Ensemble, Victrola), and Oliver Steck on trumpet.

Please see below for sample downloads of our debut CD Joe's Basement, featuring Mark Rubin on the helicon (Bad Livers, Klezmer Brass All-Stars) and Pops Bayless on "Chicago Style" tenor banjo (Shorty Long, Asylum Street Spankers) (Released October 2006 - CD design by Pops.)

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Jim Beal of the San Antonio Express-News reviews our February 9, 2007 show at Luna: http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/nightlights/2007/02/the_monkey_butlers_did_it.html