Celebrating Jazz with Art
Ever popular with Peartree Jazz Club Fans, Christine's Stackyard Stompers will again descend upon Welwyn Garden City for the Clubs Monday, 17 June Gig. The "Stackyard Six" knock the socks off fans with their mix of New Orleans Traditional and Dixieland Jazz. Christine complements trombone with vocals and John Pickett on trumpet and Swanee Slide … [Read more...]
Seaside Shuffle presents New Orleans Revivalist Jazz at its best! Ramsgate, Kent. Friday 12th, Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th July, 2013 Photos © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz … [Read more...]
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Now that the dust has settled on BBC4's "Trad Jazz Britannia" presentation, so far as Jazz&Jazz is concerned, I would like to leave the final word to The Reunion Jazz Band's ace trumpeter, Alan Hippsley. Alan and I have touched base every so often over the months and I have a huge regard for his views on jazz, which he also shares in his … [Read more...]
I'm posting this as a follow up to John Petters' item on my Facebook Jazzers Group regarding his "spat with Ken Palmer" about jazz drumming over the decades. John's item was first featured in his article "Please Read Carefully" in the June issue of Just Jazz Magazine. I commented "I wish we could concentrate on the future of jazz rather than on … [Read more...]
Monday, 29th May, friends from Canada paid me a surprise visit. I had planned to get to The Cafe in The Crypt, Trafalgar Square, for TJ Johnson's monthly session that evening. But I was pushed for time. Then I remembered Trefor Williams had promised to make a reservation for me in case I was … [Read more...]
Google Colin Kingwell's Jazz Bandits and you will find a plethora of coverage. But Colin needs to do little to promote his band these days. The personnel may have changed over the years but as one jazz writer put it when describing Colin as a classic stylist, "all the true blue jazz fans from the 50s know who Colin is". The Bandits have … [Read more...]
Whilst currently focusing on Chris Barber and his incredible contribution to Jazz worldwide, I thought it would be great to share with Jazz&Jazz followers this very recent BBC "One Show" youtube in which Jazz and Blues fanatic Hugh Laurie meets Chris, his "jazz hero". They discuss The Blues and Chris's role in introducing to Britain great … [Read more...]
Chris Barber will be joined by four of his former band members for a rare reunion of jazz Greats in a star performance at The Basingstoke Irish Centre at 8.00pm on Thursday, 30th May. Initial plans were for Chris to be reunited with his former clarinetist, jazz legend and "Flook" cartoonist Wally Fawkes, but sadly Wally has had to drop out … [Read more...]
Such was the response on my Facebook Jazzers Group to my feature "Trad Jazz Britannia - Rescheduled by BBC!" that I felt impelled to run this sequel before the programme is broadcast on BBC Four at 9.00pm this coming Friday (24th May). The question at issue focused on "Just Who Introduced Skiffle?" and I especially appreciated Britain's … [Read more...]