Celebrating the Joy of Jazz
Four Magical Jazz&Jazz YouTubes Featuring Musical Moments with
CHRIS INGHAM – piano/vocal, PAUL HIGGS – trumpet, JEROME DAVIS – bass,
GEORGE DOUBLE – drums
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Jonny Boston (Leader, Clt, Sax, Vocals); Gary Wood (Tpt, Vocals); Dave Hewett (tmb); Tim Huskisson (pno); Trefor Williams (bass); Martin Guy (dms)
I’ve kept tabs on Jonny Boston ever since launching Jazz&Jazz, so I jumped at the opportunity to meet and film him for YouTubes at his Botany Bay Jazz Club gig in Hertfordshire, during his recent UK tour. He had gathered around him a great line up
of UK musicians for the tour:
Gary Wood (Tpt, Vocals); Dave Hewett (tmb); Tim Huskisson (pno);
Trefor Williams (bass); Martin Guy (dms, depping for John Petters).
Tim Huskisson
Jonny’s vitality, personality and mission shone through the entire performance. His objectives in life, demonstrated in his music, are admirable.
Following the Bay gig, Jonny messaged me: “Nice to meet you Peter. We enjoyed ourselves. I look forward to seeing the YouTube clips when they’re ready.
“I’m hoping to bring “Jonny & the Jazzuits” over for some gigs in 2017, so if you have any ideas for church venues and jazz clubs, do let me know. God bless you!”
Jonny B.
Here is a selection of my YouTube Scoops taken at The Bay Jazz Club.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
David Hepworth (Leader, clarinet & saxophone); Wil Robinson (trumpet & flugelhorn); Andy Bramall (guitar & banjo); Liz Hepworth (bass); Rob Cotterell (drums)
Washington Whirligig hit the jazz scene as recently as 2012 and their winning ways have quickly won then a reputation for versatility and professionalism.
As the following Jazz&Jazz YouTubes taken during their February gig at Blisworth’s Walnut Tree Jazz Club show, Washington Whirligig have quickly taken the jazz club scene by storm playing early New Orleans jazz through to mainstream, swing and blues in their own inimitable
and versatile style.
The band was featured in the April, 2015, issue of Just Jazz magazine.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
“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
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.
Louis Thomas
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)
When Brian Turnock messaged me with the sad news that Maurice Van Eyck, formerly band leader of The New Orleans Z’Hulus, had passed away I promptly decided to ask my very good friend and fellow artist, Grace McKee, if she would paint a portrait of Maurice to commemorate him.
Then when I posted the portrait on Facebook and on my Facebook Jazzers Group the response was instantaneous and spontaneously positive. So I decided Grace’s portrait deserves pride of place as the latest art feature on Jazz&Jazz.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
Art and painting are a wonderful therapies. I still paint the occasional portrait although due to damaged shoulders I can no longer paint with a steady hand at the easel. So these days it’s a privilege to feature on Jazz&Jazz Alan Bateman’s superb jazz portraits and here is his latest masterpiece – a wonderfully nostalgic portrait of the much missed Pat Halcox in duet with Chris Barber.
It hardly seems three years since Pat’s passing and I think it appropriate to feature along with Alan’s portrait the wonderful tribute my good friend and musician Bob Thomas wrote for Jazz&Jazz to commemorate him:
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Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
Olle Wassén (banjo), Pider Åvall (leader, trombone/vocals), Fredrik Hamra (drums), Niklas Robertson (saxophone/clarinet/vocals), Jan Karlsson (bass), Jonathan Gustafsson (trumpet).
Touring the UK from Sweden, Mysto’s Hot Lips Jazz Band rounded off Tad Newton’s
St Valentines Jazz Weekend at The Castle, Wellingborough, with a stunning session of hot jazz and hot moves, enthralling a full house of fans in The Castle Theatre.
If you’ve not seen Mysto’s Hot Lips watch out for them. Delightful musicians full of exuberance and aged from their early thirties up to leader and trombonist Pider Åvall in his dynamic early 70s.
Who knows when Mysto’s Hot Lips will next tour the UK? So I’m thrilled to present this selection of YouTubes I took on the day.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
DixieMix Jazz Band, led cornetist Simon Nelson, is one of the UK’s most engaging and hard working jazz ensembles.
Fans will recall DixieMix’s recent highly successful UK tour with Rod Stewart which brought them national recognition with TV appearances plus festival and theatre gigs.
With the best jazz musicians in East Anglia, an enthusiasm for traditional jazz, the band provides outstanding entertainment and top quality performances for all occasions.
Featuring
Simon Nelson – cornet, trumpet, flugel horn and vocals
Chris Wigley – trombone and vocals
Peter Oxborough – clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax
Kevin West – banjo, guitar, ukulele
John Benson – bass and vocals
Tony Wilkins – drums and vocals
Jazz&Jazz YouTubes
The following Jazz&Jazz YouTubes were filmed at DixieMix’s show stopping gig during Tad Newton’s highly successful St Valentine’s Jazz Weekend at The Castle Theatre, Wellingborough. So brilliant was it, I would have filmed the entire show, but I’m a jazz fan and I was there to enjoy the live performance as much as to take movies! Great to meet you at last, Simon!
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
There’s a tale behind this portrait but if Alan won’t tell, neither will I! Let’s just say I had fun consulting with Alan about it, Alan had fun painting it, Tad Newton got a kick out of delivering it to The Jazz Archives HQ – and Digby and Gwen love it! By now I expect it has pride of place in their home!
And so it should to mark Digby’s Award for “Services to British Jazz” in the
2015 British Jazz Awards.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
“That’s a Plenty” is a 1914 ragtime piano piece composed by Lew Pollack. Nowadays it’s played in Dixieland style.
“Stardust” conjures up memories of Nat King Cole. Here Adrian Cox wows Bedford Golf Club jazz fans with Hoagy Carmichael’s classic but without the luxury of top rate recording studio facilities. That’s jazz – Live Jazz, Club Jazz.
Adrian Cox, saxophone; Mez Clough, drums; George Trebar, double bass; Nils Solberg, guitar; Robin Harris, keyboard.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
