In the In the fall of 2004 drummer Bill Carbone spent a month in Shanghai China performing at The Hennessy XO Jazz festival. Knowing that his cohort Toussaint would rock Shanghai like nothing ever had, Bill formed a group around him with the intention of heading back overseas. While the band had immediate success in Boston, landing what would become a popular weekly gig at Noir in Cambridge MA, the Chinese realized it was cheaper to hire Canadian bands and the boat left without them. Several weeks into the Noir gig a fan sarcastically hollered it's Toussaint and The China Band, and so they were named. In the years since the group has performed all over the Northeast and internationally, with shows in Puerto Rico, Honduras, Ecuador, Cuba and The Bahamas. Unfortunately the Cambridge Police cancelled the weekly Noir gig due to its frequent forays into over-capacity!