A new ukulele project by local luthier Gordy Bischoff is called G.B. Junior & The Jive Jumpin’ Fleas.

Travel back to a 1920s-1930s-era jazz club not with a full orchestra and jazz singer but with a six-piece ensemble that just might have the power to transport you back in time.

Fronted by local and renowned guitar and ukulele builder Gordy Bischoff, the group, known as G.B. Junior & The Jive Jumpin’ Fleas, will be unveiling their new EP called Uke Flew The Coop  on Oct. 29 at the Eau Claire Music School. Gordy leads the group with ukulele and vocals.

He is joined by the golden pipes of Seattle’s vocal jazz princess Kate Voss and her melodica, along with her jazz guitar wizard husband Jason Goessl, a former Blugold Jazz alumni. Together, they’re known as Sundae + Mr. Goessl, an awesome duo of jazz prowess.

Completing the group is the inspiring Jeff Reitz on woodwinds, the rock solid bass work of Eric “Pedals” Thompson, and Camilla Mennitta who dominates the drums as if they’re her own orchestra.

The band will play all five songs from the CD:

• “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” (“Sweet dreams until sunbeams find you,” debuted by the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra in 1931 and made popular by Mama Cass Elliott of the Mamas and the Papas in 1968)
• “When I Get Low, I Get High” (“My fur coat’s sold,” sung for the first time by Ella Fitzgerald when she sang it with the Chick Webb Orchestra in 1936)
• “Sway,” (“When marimba rhythms start to play, Dance with me, make me sway,”  the English version of the 1953 Mexican song “Quién Será” made popular by Dean Martin in 1954 and more recently Michael Bublé in 2003)
• “Minnie the Moocher,” (“the red hot hoochie coochie … with a heart as big as a whale” and the 1931 “Hi-De-Ho” signature song of singer and band leader Cab Calloway who made skat famous at Harlem’s Cotton Club)
• “Sweet Sue,” (“Every star above knows the one I love, Sweet Sue, just you,” a 1928 jazz standard by Victor Young and made popular by a trombonist in Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians big band orchestra).

So ditch those Halloween parties, dress as if you’re going to your favorite speakeasy, and you might end up dancing the jive or samba on the floor.

GB Junior & the Jive Jumpin’ Fleas CD release party • Friday, Oct. 29, 7-9pm • Eau Claire Music School, 1620 Ohm Avenue, Eau Claire • adults $20, students $15, CD for sale for $10 • tickets http://ecms.brownpapertickets.com/ or at the door • for more information contact gordy@bischoffguitars.com or visit www.parlourtrick.com/artists/jivejumpinfleas/