The New Orleans Jazz Vipers are a six-piece swing band playing regularly and to enthusiastic audiences in New Orleans. The band's repertoire comes from the likes of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dicky Wells, Benny Carter, and Count Basie, including well-known favorites as well as more obscure treasures.

New Orleans Jazz Vipers were the winner of Offbeat Magazine’s "Best of the Beat" 2006 award for "Best Traditional Jazz Album", for the album "Hope You're Comin' Back", and they won the same award in 2004 for their previous release "Live on Frenchmen Street". They were nominated for a Big Easy Award in 2005, for best traditional jazz band. In 2001 and 2003 they won the "Best of the Beat" award for "Best Emerging Traditional Jazz Band." The band was voted one of the top three jazz bands in the 2004 reader’s poll in Where Y’at Magazine.

Part of the unique sound of the Jazz Vipers comes from the fact that they rarely use any amplification, and they are part of a growing number of bands on Frenchmen Street who trust that the audience will eventually quiet down enough to enjoy the music. When necessary, mikes are used and set-up is minimal. The sound of the band is at the same time retro, full of energy, and unpretentious, with both up-tempo dance numbers and well-chosen ballads; it has been aptly described as neo-trad-jazz. The Vipers are popular with swing dancers and the music appeals to audiences of all ages. To quote the review of their latest CD in Offbeat magazine: "Above all else, these are cool musicians, fully cognizant that less is more and that jazz...is dance music." www.jazzvipers.com