Autumn 1992, in the small town of Ånge in northern Sweden, three young musicians gathered together to form a trio playing New Orleans Jazz. This project led to the founding of Spicy Advice Ragtime Band in 1993. The first major appearance was made at the Askersund traditional jazz festival 1995, and later that year the band was reshaped into a band with young musicians only.

Spicy Advice members 1995-1998. Left to right: Andreas Jonsson, Claes-Goran Carlsson, Joakim Falk, Cissi Larsson, Goran Wiklund, Bjorn Larsson, Magnus Bjork. In the front: Adam Falk

Since 1998 or so, when some of the members had moved to Stockholm, the band was reformed there and became soon one of the most popular traditional jazz bands in the Stockholm region, playing in places like Stampen, Mosebacke and Nalen.

In July 2001 Spicy Advice Ragtime Band made a two week long tour in England including jazz club gigs in London, Birmingham, Bude, Hastings, Bristol, Clevedon, Albrighton and others. This was the bands first international breakthrough and since then the band have done frequent visits to the UK (for example was our third CD production recorded live at the Bude Jazz Festival 2003) as well as to great festivals and clubs in Denmark, Finland and Germany.

2007 Spicy Advice Ragtime Band won the first price at Euro Jazz Festival, Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France. The trumpeter Joakim Falk also received the festivals special soloist price. The tremendous success for the band in this highly regarded competition of 16 bands selected from 16 European contries was well noticed by the Swedish mass media and included a performance at Swedish television TV4 in July. Later that summer the band made their first appearance in Norway, playing at Silda Jazz Festival in Haugesund and Oslo Jazz Festival.