He appeared at inaugural balls for Presidents Nixon, Carter, and Reagan as well as at many jazz cruises, festivals, and concerts.

The jazz cruise will be held every evening from the end of March.

The two-hour dinner and jazz cruise, featuring a live Dixieland jazz combo, boards nightly at 19:00 and departs at 20:00.

A nightly jazz cruise is $28; $49 with dinner.

(Note: The May 10 sailing is a jazz cruise.)

After the jazz cruise, we didn't get back to the hotel till 11, and the next morning the schedule was jammed.

Regency Cruises has even held a jazz cruise featuring women who play jazz.

Some didn't even know it was a jazz cruise and spent all their time playing bingo or blackjack or bridge or going to a third big nightclub or the disco.

One company that specializes in jazz cruises and offers discounts on many of them is Jazz Club at Sea, a division of Cruise Advisors International.

But one of the first cruises devoted to a specific theme was the jazz cruise offered by Norwegian Cruise Line on the Norway in the early 1980's.