Jazz&Jazz YouTubes Featuring The Old Hat Jazz Band at The Winning Post

March 1, 2016 By Peter Butler

“We’ve played in bars, theatres, music halls, village halls, restaurants, parties, Swing dance balls and jazz clubs to a very broad selection of people … we are playing a style of music which relates to everyone … as applicable today as it ever was.”

Lizy Exell, Old Hat Jazz Band

Lazy Exell

Lizy Exell

In my quest to post Jazz&Jazz features focusing on our fast emerging younger generation of Jazz Bands and musicians, I took in a gig at The Winning Post Jazz Club, Twickenham, recently to meet and film for Jazz&Jazz YouTubes Lizy Exell and The Old Hat Jazz Band. It was a huge pleasure to see Kay and Tony Leppard again (I still miss their Thursday Midday Gigs at The 100 Club) along with Mike Pointon, Peter Marr and Barry and Chris Price. Also my good friend, photographer Laurence Cumming, whose photos are featured in this post along with a selection of the YouTubes
I filmed on the day.

L to R: Will Scott, Mike Soper, Dave Shulman.

L to R: Will Scott, Mike Soper, Dave Shulman.

Louis Thomas

Louis Thomas

James Kitchman

James Kitchman

Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz

(YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
(Photos courtesy of Laurence Cumming © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)

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