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1 It’s been an exciting year here at Upbeat - we have bought the American label Jazz Crusade which has over 130 titles of and Traditional jazz, as you might have read in the jazz press. We haveNewsletter distributed the label 2015 in the UK for many years, but are delighted to have brought it under the Upbeat umbrella! On the practical side, we’ve made our on-line shop more user friendly and we’ve 2017 also added the option to pay via PayPal - I hope you will find this helpful! In addition, we have lots of new releases and special offers which we are sure you will enjoy! Here’s to 2017 - keep jazzin’! Liz Biddle JACK TEAGARDEN & ALL STARS in Concert at Manchester Free Trade Hall 1957 NEW!

URCD258 1 CD £12.99 Jack Teagarden These rare recordings come from a UK tour made by this Earl Hines specially assembled group in October 1957, presented by The National Jazz Federation. With the obvious exception of Max All Stars In Concert Kaminsky, every had previously been a member of Manchester Free ’s All Stars and the promoters thought they Trade Hall 1957 would appeal to the British public in the same way Satchmo himself had on his first post-war visit the previous year. The rapturous audience clearly loves it all. A valuable souvenir of a memorable occasion.

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NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! – Recently ROGER MARKS in RETROSPECT TERRY LIGHTFOOT IN KID THOMAS VALENTINE – Discovered Late Colyer – Marks Out Of Twenty RETROSPECT Same old Soupbone

URCD271 1 CD £12.99 URCD270 1 CD £12.99 URCD269 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3001 1 CD £12.99

This live session features some of the Roger Marks has toured Britain and The second in our series celebrating Long awaited re-issue of this popular finest late Colyer where he fronts a Europe extensively for 25 years great British jazzmen. Originally favourite. What you hear on this talented line-up which reunited him with appearing repeatedly at the majority released as Stardust in 1990 this will transport you back to a two key from his ‘classic’ 50s of the jazz clubs and festivals. They CD shows why Terry’s name has bright, sunny day in October 1968 line-up: Ray Foxley and Colin Bowden. It have enjoyed great popularity with been synonymous with quality with Kid Thomas and his Algiers is also one of the few occasions where the public and critics alike, receiving of sound and presentation. The Stompers on top form. The music is he uses a tenor sax played by George generous air-play on BBC Radio. Here band’s versatility and wide range of vintage and the line-up perfect. The Berry, who blows fluent for the we present 16 terrific tracks across repertoire plus good arrangements Kid is joined by Louis Nelson, Manny rest of the gig. Ken himself is on inspired the genres of jazz including New & tight ensemble show this to be Paul, Charlie Hamilton, Joe ‘Twat’ creative form here. Orleans, and Mainstream a band with fine soloists within its Butler and Sammy Penn. recorded between April 1990 to ranks! This CD is recommended for its February 2011 & including tracks eclectic range of tunes and vigorous from The Armada , The and very polished Traditional/ Mainstreamers and some rare duet Mainstream jazz performances. John collaborations. Keen Just Jazz.

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 1 11/09/2016 09:24 2 LAKE

CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND – Back in Berlin 1960 THE JAKE LEG JUG BAND – Everythin’s Jake

LACD346 2 CDs £12.99 LACD340 1CD £12.99 ‘Barber In Berlin’ is one of the most popular in Chris With their good humour, attention to detail and varied Barber’s discography. Almost exactly a year later the band repertoire the JLJB have built up a considerable following was back in Berlin. No-one can remember the concert in just over two years. This is their second CD for LAKE and being recorded, but in 2015 a set of tapes appeared and it was their previous one (LACD330) which propelled them this is the resulting CD. The band is on cracking form with from obscurity to being very much in demand in both solo turns from all the favourites, , Pat NEW! Jazz Clubs and Folk Clubs the length and breadth of the Halcox, the leader himself and, of course, Ottilie Patterson. UK. & Rhythm magazine said that their music had a “knockabout, good-time feel” which just about sums it up! NEW!

REMEMBERING STEVE LANE OTTILIE PATTERSON – Blues Book and Beyond LACD347 1 CD £12.99 Steve Lane is one of the unsung heroes of British Traditional LACD296 1 CD £12.99 Jazz. Trumpeter Lane formed his first band in 1949 and remained doggedly loyal to the Classic style of Jazz typified The original album Blues Book & Beyond is classic blues, R by , Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton in ‘n’ B material and a couple of her original compositions, the 1920s. Steve remained semi-professional all his life, enhanced with previously unreleased tracks - 4 from Ottilie but was highly respected as a mentor to many aspiring Jazz Swings the Irish EP - and 3 which had limited release. 23 musicians. In addition to playing Steve also ran three record tracks including Bad Spell Blues and Kansas City Blues. labels, VJM, Halcyon and Azure. This compilation includes NEW! tracks with the Southern Stompers and 5 tracks by the VJM Washboard Band. New Orleans to & Back to the Delta – KEN ANDY SCHUMM & ENRICO TOMASSO - When Louis met Bix COLYER 1953-54

LACD345 1 CD £12.99 Reputedly there was a jam session which took place LACD209 1 CD £12.99 in 1928 when Louis Armstrong was passing through Classic Recordings from 1953 and 1954 featuring Chris Chicago and was playing there. They Barber, Monty Sunshine, and . met for an afterhours session. The two were then young Originally issued as LACD14 this re-issue includes the first men at the peak of their powers. We have imagined that UK issue of rare alternate ‘Delta’ sides. session and two of the world’s leading exponents of the styles - Enrico (Louis) and Andy (Bix) - come together to bring it alive with the help of other leading players of vintage Jazz, including ‘Spats’ Langham, Malcolm Sked NEW! and Nicholas D. Ball. This is ‘hot’ Jazz at its best! & Friends

REMEMBERING MONTY SUNSHINE LACD295 1 CD £12.99 The wonderful Alex Welsh Band and Alex’s friends are LACD344 2 CDs £12.99 guitarist , trombonist George Chisholm, singer Monty Sunshine was a British Trad great – he was in the and bass saxophonist Harry Gold. All legends legendary Crane River Jazz Band, in Ken Colyer’s first of . The set is of previously unreleased ‘live’ Band and also in ’s Jazz Band throughout the material and very well recorded. Several of the tunes Alex 1950s and was the soloist on Petite Fleur. He also ran his never recorded commercially. These recordings from 1958- own band from 1961 into the 2000s. This compilation 1960 find the band & friends on exceptionally fine form! has rare and previously unissued tracks alongside many commercially available tracks by Monty & features Ken Colyer, Chris Barber, Charlie Galbraith, Beryl Bryden and Johnny Parker. NEW! KEN COLYER 1957-58 Lonesome Road LACD267 2 CDs £12.99 FREDDIE RANDALL – Before & After A perennial favourite collection of significant recordings made by Ken Colyer in the years 1957 and 1958. Includes LACD343 1 CD £12.99 the rare Hamburg concert by the Jazzmen and Group, Freddy Randall was one of the legends of British Jazz. A the EP ‘They All Played Ragtime’, the equally rare ‘live’ set fiery trumpeter who followed the Chicago/Dixieland route which was re-recorded as ‘Colyer Plays Standards’ and the and, until Alex Welsh established his band, led the finest only recording of the Omega Brass Band ever issued. band of its type in the UK. This CD comprises the last set of recordings he made with his own band in 1957 and a set recorded under the name of Britain’s Greatest Jazz Band in 1972. Both bands contained top class musicians and BRITISH TRADITIONAL JAZZ AT A TANGENT SERIES included on the CD are , George Chisholm, Brian Lemon, Al Gay, Pete Hodge, Gerry Salisbury, Kenny NEW! All Single CDs @ £12.99 each OR LACD700 buy all 7 for £75 Baldock, Syd Boatman, Johnny Richardson and Buzz Green. OR LACD701 Volumes 1-4 for £44 LACD702 Volumes 5-7 for £33

BIX OFF THE RECORD – Recreations of Unrecorded LACD316 At A Tangent Volume 1 – Breaking London including The Gateway Jazz Band and the Mould – Christie Brothers Stompers, Kenny Archie Semple’s Capitol Jazzmen. LACD328 At Performances Baker’s Half Dozen, Pat Hawes, Dave Berry, A Tangent Volume 5 – The Second Line – Bands & more. LACD317 At A Tangent that secured major record deals such as Mike LACD339 1 CD £12.99 Volume 2 – Trad Style – Diz Disley, , Cotton, Gerry Brown, Avon Cities Jazz Band and Another in the Vintage Recording Project series - a CD of Alex Korner, The Temperance Seven, George more. LACD335 At A Tangent Volume 6 – The the music of Bix Beiderbecke - a look at the tunes we know Chisholm & more. LACD318 At A Tangent Classic Style Bands –followers of Clarence Bix played but never recorded and some tunes current at Volume 3 – Out of the Limelight – Graham Williams and King Oliver path rather than New the time which he might have played. The result turned out Stewart, Bobby Mickleburgh’s Bobcats, Erik Orleans or Trad including and to be hugely satisfying with some top-notch playing: Andy Silk’s Southern Jazzband & more. LACD327 Steve Lane. LACD341 At A Tangent Volume 7 – Schumm is one of the finest interpreters of Bix’s music today At A Tangent Volume 4 – The Territory Bands Chicago-Dixieland Style Bands – Mickelburgh, & he is joined by Kristoffer Kompen, Mauro Porro, David – Bands that operated in the regions outside Gold, Semple & more. Boeddinghaus, Frans Sjöström & Josh Duffee. NEW!

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 2 11/09/2016 09:24 LAKE 3 LAKE

British Traditional Jazz – A Potted History CHRIS BARBER COLLECTION

LACD325 1961-1962 LACD324 1959-1960 Double CDs @ £12.99 each LACD300 3 CDs £12.99 LACD332 The 1970s Single CD @ £12.99 OR LACD502 All 3 for £33 LAKE’s fastest selling title ever! A triple CD set for the price From the LAKE Year Series of Chris Barber retrospective, of one! Of the 73 tracks many are previously unissued or here covering 1959 – 1962 over three CDs. They include extremely rare. The narrative in a 40 page booklet puts the a number of EPs, singles and some previously unreleased bands and the music into perspective. Its popularity gave items. Personnel include Monty Sunshine, Pat Halcox and birth to the At A Tangent Series – the latest of these is on Ottilie Patterson. Chris Barber had added the Blues guitar page 2, and all of the titles are still available. towards the end of the 1960s, the 1970s saw the renaming of the Jazz Band to the Jazz & Blues Band. All the 70s tracks are unique to this CD.

JEFF BARNHART & SPATS LANGHAM – We Wish We Were Twins CHRIS BARBER COLLECTION LACD342 1 CD £12.99 Aside from reissue albums Jeff Barnhart and Spats LACD268 1957-1958 LACD246 1956 Langham have appeared on more LAKE CDs than any other Double CDs @ £12.99 each artists, but they have never before appeared on the same LACD235 1955 Single CD @ £12.99 OR ones. Over the years that Jeff has been coming to the UK LACD503 All 3 for £33 he and Spats have performed together in bands, in quartets and as a duo. They have a mutual admiration for each The early years are represented here with much previously other’s work so it seemed high time to put them together. unreleased material plus EP favourites, including portrait The result is 21 tracks (79 minutes) of joyous, high calibre NEW! EPs of Monty Sunshine, Pat Halcox, Ottilie Patterson and music making. Chris Barber himself. Full details on the Upbeat Mailorder Website – or call and they will be sent to you.

REMEMBERING PAT HALCOX THE DUTCH SWING COLLEGE BAND 1958-1959 LACD338 2 CDs £12.99 When Pat Halcox joined Chris Barber’s Jazz Band in the LACD292 2 CDs £12.99 early 1950s it started a remarkable career and produced the longest serving partnership in Jazz as Pat held the trumpet The first CD is of a concert to mark the band’s 10th chair until 2008. CD 1 has Pat playing with Chris Barber’s anniversary in 1958 and again features the singer, Neva band, with a few tracks from each decade with guests Alex Raphaelo. The second CD is a set of studio recorded tunes Welsh and . CD 2 has Pat guesting with other marking Peter Schilperoort’s return to the band, after a bands - including Humph’s and Alex Welsh’s - playing with couple of years’ absence. There is also the added bonus of American visitors Art Hodes and & fronting his own All Stars. None of the four tracks from a very rare EP by the Dim Kesber Quartet. tracks have been released before.

OTTILIE PATTERSON – That Patterson Girl 1956

LACD244 1 CD £12.99 Britain’s best loved and most sought-after Blues singer! LACD282 2 CDs £12.99 This CD contains 23 tracks in all, including 11 previously unreleased songs or versions of songs. When Ottilie The Lyttelton Band at its finest at the end of the 1950s. Patterson appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in 1955 Two classic LPs, ‘Humph Dedicates’ and ‘Triple Exposure’ with Chris Barber’s Jazz Band, described plus previously unreleased material make up this collection her as reincarnated.This CD charts that from 1959 reissued on a double CD for the price of one. In development, includes 11 tracks never previously released 1959 Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band recorded two LPs and three songs only available here. This is one of Lake’s and a single. All are included in the collection. best selling CDs in the history of the label!

THE GREAT REVIVAL Traditional Jazz 1949-58 - Various Artists KEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN & SKIFFLE GROUP 1956

Volume 1 LACD134 £12.99 Volume 2 LACD135 £12.99 LACD241 2 CDs £12.99 Volume 3 LACD136 £12.99 Volume 4 LACD137 £12.99 LACD504 Buy all 4 for £44 Ken Colyer remains one of the leading cult figures of British Traditional Jazz. He epitomises, and is the Godfather for, the purist New Orleans approach. This CD, part of Lake’s mid- This series charts the great British bands price ‘year’ series, introduces what has become known as of the Trad revival. Originally on the the ‘classic’ Ken Colyer Jazzmen of the 1950s. It comprises pioneering Esquire , these tracks all the recordings made for the Decca and Tempo labels in are a perfect snapshot of the early years of 1956 by both the Jazzmen and the Skiffle Group including the jazz revival. ‘Club Session With Colyer’ considered to be his finest Volume 1 features Cy Laurie, Christie recordings ever. Brothers Stompers, Ken Colyer, Bob Mickleburgh’s Bobcats, Tony Short Trio, Dave Carey & Beryl Bryden. KEN COLYER 1966 Volume 2 has tunes from Acker Bilk, Crane River Jazz Band, Bobby Mickleburgh’s LACD285 1 CD £12.99 Bobcats, Brian Wooley’s Jazzmen & Mick Gill’s Jazz Band. The arch New Orleans purist of British with ‘live’ recordings made in Germany in 1966. Colyer carved out Volume 3 features , Bobby his own niche eschewing commercialism. In the 1950s and Mickleburgh’s Bobcats, Mike Daniels’ Delta 60s Trad Jazz was as big in Germany as it was here and the Jazzmen, Humphrey Lyttelton, George bands toured there regularly. Ken Colyer first went there Chisholm and Kenny Ball. every year from 1953 and this CD was recorded during his Volume 4 showcases Chris Barber, Autumn tour of 1966. The band was on terrific form and Merseysippi Jazzband, Lew Jowett & The the CD includes four previously unreleased tracks and some Second City Jazzmen. tunes Colyer never recorded anywhere else.

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 3 11/09/2016 09:24 4 504 Records THE LARRY BORENSTEIN COLLECTION featured in memory of his 100th birthday in 2017

BRIAN CARRICK & HIS NEW ORLEANS BAND - BILLIE and DEE DEE PIERCE 1951 – 1961 Dew Drop Revisited 504CD43 504CD39 504CD36 All 1 CD @ 504CDS130 1 CD £12.99 £12.99 each OR 504CD500 All 3 £33 Recorded in April 2015 at the legendary Dew Drop Social 504CD43 At the time of recording some of these tracks and Dance Hall in Mandeville, on the northern were considered ‘bawdy’ and the original tapes were shore of Lake Ponchatrain. It was a stormy day and the labelled accordingly! Includes 12 tracks featuring Paul band and recording team only just made it to the venue! Barbarin’s New Orleans Band in 1951and 1 with the Chris But the trip was well worth it as you will hear! 18 tracks Barber Jazz Band and other New Orleans musicians from with Brian Carrick and his clarinet leading an ace team of 1960. 504CD36 and 504CD39 were recorded in 1960. New Orleans musicians. NEW! Billie Pierce’s and vocals are joined by Dee Dee Pierce on cornet and vocals and Kid Thomas Valentine trumpet. JACK WILLIS – Orleans Street Shuffle KID THOMAS VALENTINE & his DIXIELAND BAND 1957 504CDS5 1 CD £12.99 504CD30 504CD37 504CD41 All 1 CD @ This recording dates from August 1982 and was made at £12.99 each OR 504CD501 All 3 £33 the Ultrasonic Studio in New Orleans, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jack Willis the leader & 504CD30 was recorded at Associated Artists Studio in cornet player, is probably best known for his association New Orleans around 1957. Personnel on this occasion with the George Lewis Band in the 1960s. Other band reads like a who’s who of New Orleans Jazz - Kid Thomas members are Freddie Lonzo, Ralph Johnson, Sam Mooney, Valentine plus Louis Nelson, Ed Washington, Joe James, Les Muscutt, Brian Turnock and Stanley Williams. NEW! Burke Stephenson & Sammy Penn. 504CD37 1957 Kid Thomas Valentine’s Dixieland Band comprised the Kid plus Ed Washington, Louis Nelson, Burke Stevenson & Sammy Penn. 504CD41 has songs from the collection including old KID SHEIK’S STORYVILLE RAMBLERS – The Sheik of Araby pop songs and some jazz standards reflecting the band’s dance hall period. As always, Kid Thomas leads his band with his usual exciting sparse style. 504CDS1 1 CD £12.99 George ‘Kid Sheik’ Cola is presented here leading his famous Storyville Ramblers, until recently his regular Preservation ’S NEW ORLEANS BAND 1956 - 1957 Hall Band. This CD version of the original LP has further unreleased tracks from the original session from 1981. Band 504CD040 504CD34 504CD44 All 1 CD @ personnel are Kid Sheik Cola leader, trumpet and vocals, £12.99 each OR 504CD502 All 3 £33 Louis Nelson trombone, Clarence Ford clarinet and tenor sax, Jeanette Kimball piano, Les Muscatt and guitar, 504CD40 & 504CD41 feature Punch Miller’s New Orleans Stewart Davis string bass and Chester Jones drums. Band with Ed Washington. 504CD44 has tracks from the full band, plus some with Punch Miller’s Big 6 and his Big 4 with tracks from 1956 and 1957. Again, Ed Washington GEORGE LEWIS WITH KEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN 1957 features on many tracks.

504CD50/504CD51 Volumes 1 & 2 Single CDs @ £12.99 each 504CD503 BUY BOTH for £22 KEN COLYER – The Unknown New Orleans Sessions 1952 - 1953 George Lewis’ first tour of Britain in 1957 was eagerly awaited and the concerts at Manchester 504CD23 1 CD £12.99 Free Trade Hall did not disappoint! This was a 14 previously unreleased tracks of Ken Colyer with happy occasion and the audience responded Raymond Burke which had lain forgotten for thirty years! enthusiastically! Each CD covers one half of Plus a bonus of 5 tracks previously on NOLA records, the concert. George & Ken are joined by Mac included for completeness, so the 19 New Orleans sessions Duncan, Ian Wheeler, John Bastable, Ron Ward from 1952 and 1953 appear together here for the first and Colin Bowden. What a line-up! time. Band members include Ken Colyer, Raymond Burke, Dick Allen, Bill Huntingdon, Dr Edmund Souchon, Harald Katz Maestri, Jack Delaney..... DYNAMITE JAZZ SERIES – ENGLISH TRAD FAVOURITES

DJCD008 VINTAGE DAN PAWSON DJCD004 THE CRANE RIVER JAZZ BAND OSCAR ‘PAPA’ CELESTIN and his Original Tuxedo Jazz Band 1 CD £12.99 Live at The 1 CD £12.99 1949-1953 Birmingham born Dan Pawson (1936- Ken Colyer and his brother Bill, had found their 2002) was a world leading authority on inspiration in the recordings made in the 1940s 504CD54 1 CD £12.99 early jazz and the New Orleans jazz revival. by Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Kid Rena and This CD includes 15 previously unissued Kid Ory and joined by like minded musicians Oscar ‘Papa’ Celestin’s historic recordings, made in the tracks and plays for a generous 74m 55s. to form The Crane River Jazz Band in 1949. In 1920s for Okeh and Columbia, have assured his star DJCD007 GEOFF GILBERT’S GLORYLAND 1972 the band got together to play occasional place in the New Orleans firmament. All the titles on this JAZZBAND 1 CD £12.99 concerts and make some recordings and compilation appear here for the first time on CD. They were Ex-pat Gilbert is heard here with other ex- broadcasts.....of which this is one! recorded between 1949 and 1953 at venues across New pats on a recording from Sydney, Australia DJCD003 KEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN - Live at Orleans. Oscar ‘Papa’ Celestin with Bill Matthews, Alphonse in 1993, this CD has 18 tracks running a the 51 Club 1960 1 CD £12.99 Picou, Octave Crosby, Richard Alex string bass, Christopher generous 70m 23s Ken Colyer live in 1960 with Graham Happy Goldston drums, plus sessions with Eddie Pierson DJCD006 THE NEW IBERIA STOMPERS Stewart, , Ray Foxley, John trombone, Louis Barbarin, Joseph Thomas and others. Live 1981 and 1982 1 CD £12.99 Barnstable, Ron Ward & Colin Bowden The New Iberia Stompers were a happy DJCD002 & THE STORYVILLE band always with the nucleus of O’Sullivan, JAZZMEN - Live in Leipzig 1978 2 CDs KID ORY and his CREOLE JAZZBAND – Live at Beverly Casimir and Wood. Tracks 1-7 here are from £15.99 Cavern 1949 Discs 1 & 2 a session at the 100 Club in 1981, while This was Bob’s best band - as you can hear tracks 8-11 were recorded at in Belgium in for yourselves! Bob Wallis, Andre Beeson, Mike 504CD85D 2 CDs £15.99 December 1982 Sherbourne, Ian Armit, Ken Ames, Bernie Cash, DJCD005 SAMMY RIMINGTON – Back to George Collier. Discs 1 and 2 of this live recording of Kid Ory and his the Sixties 2 CDs £15.99 DJCD001 KEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN - In Creole Jazzband are from the Beverly Cavern, Hollywood, Sam Rimington with the Barry ‘Kid’ Martyn Concert 1959 1CD £12.99 LA circa 1949. Personnel are Kid Ory with Andrew Blakeney, Ragtime Band Alumni also features Cuff Recorded at Manchester Free Trade Hall on Joe Darensbourg, Buster Wilson, Ed Garland and Minor Hall. Billett. Recorded in England in March 1998, 31st January 1959 this is Ken Colyer with his 36 tracks in total. this double CD runs a very generous 137 classic line-up of Mac Duncan, Ian Wheeler, Ray Discs 3 and 4 are on 504CD86 (2 CDs £15.99) and disc 5 minutes and 18 seconds! Foxley, John Bastable, Ron Ward, Colin Bowden. is on 504CD87 (1 CD £12.99)

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 4 11/09/2016 09:24 504 Records 5 JSP

HENRY ‘RED’ ALLEN & His New York Orchestra 1929-1930 LOUIS ARMSTRONG - Hot Fives & Sevens

JSP4243 2 CDs £15.99 JSP100 4 CDs £17.99 A dream reissue - all the Henry Allen New York Orchestra’s Victor recordings made between 1929 and 1930, as well This set won the New York Times Award ALBUM of the as those featuring the Spivey Sisters. Also here are four MILLENNIUM! 99 tracks over 4 CDs containing what is titles by the Luis Russell Orchestra, comprising largely the undoubtedly one of the most important bodies of work in same musicians. The sidemen were handpicked by Allen the entire history of jazz – and that’s a quote from and Russell and are regarded as among the finest of their The Gramophone Good CD Guide! era. Long before Ellington and Basie, this is where swing really started. NEW!

MEMPHIS JUG BAND with Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers HARLEM HAMFATS – Masters of Jazz & Blues 1936-1944

JSP77201 4 CDs £17.99 JSP7745 4 CDs £17.99 The Hamfats combined blues and popular material. 4 CDs, 98 tracks re-mastered by John RT Davies from Memphis’ two great jug bands of the 78 RPM era! Also Trumpeter Herb Morand and clarinettist Odell Rand joined includes rare solo sides from Will Shade, Minnie Wallace, Joe and Charlie McCoy and Horace Malcolm on piano to Hattie Hart, ‘Casey Bill’ Weldon and Vol Stevens. Full play music both cultivated and down home. The result? discography included. A popular favourite. Goodtime music, played with the skill and panache of experienced session men. Irresistible. Remastered with a full discography. NEW! JIMMIE NOONE – Chicago Rhythm, Apex Blues Jazz SKIFFLE FROM BRITAIN TO BROADWAY – including Clarinet Innovator 1923-1943 Donegan & Colyer JSP926 4 CDs £17.99 This anthology celebrates the recorded legacy of JSP77173 4 CDs £17.99 clarinettist Jimmie Noone, from his earliest recordings until his final studio session. The timespan encompasses Skiffle was a marvellous amalgam of blues, jazz and the evolution of the music itself. Noone proved equal to swinging folk and some of the best & most important these challenges. Yet throughout, he remained true to his music is presented here. There are 100 tracks in total with own musical values formed during his boyhood in New copious notes. Artists include Lonnie Donegan, Ken Colyer’s Orleans before he worked his way upriver to Chicago. Skiffle Group, Chris Barber’s Skiffle Group, Vipers Skiffle Noone’s most important and influential period began in Autumn 1926 when he took Group, 2.19 Skiffle Group and many more. up residence at the Apex Club in Chicago with his own group that eventually included pianist Earl Hines. 96 sides over 4 CDs.

PARAMOUNT JAZZ Classic Pre-War Sides 1931-1940

JSP960 4 CDs £17.99 JSP933 4 CDs £17.99

Back by popular demand! 100 tracks over 4 CDs - digitally Sidney Bechet was the first important jazz soloist on record re-mastered and fully annotated. Featuring King Oliver, in history (beating Louis Armstrong by a few months). He Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence was a brilliant soprano saxophonist and clarinettist with Williams, Lovie Austin, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Dave a wide vibrato. A master at both individual and collective Nelson, Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, Trixie Smith, Miff improvisation within the genre of New Orleans jazz. This 97 Mole & many more. track set, presents the best of the early Bechet in numerous different settings.

BREAKING OUT IN NEW ORLEANS 1922-1929 GENNETT JAZZ REMASTERED 1922-1930 JSP921 4 CDs £17.99 JSP962 4 CD Box Set £17.99 There was something special about the Crescent City, with its carnival atmosphere and bubbling mixture of cultures, Gennett started with popular and classical music, but by that made it surely the most musical city in the New World the early 1920s it was clear that great profits lay with jazz. - and its jazzmen, from the nigh-legendary Buddy Bolden They signed the New Orleans Rhythm Kings whose first to today’s Wynton Marsalis, some of the most influential. four sides are here. Success was immediate and Gennett This collection has 101 historic recordings by numerous hot spread their net wider with , King Oliver, Bix ensembles featuring a host of New Orleans’ finest, including Beiderbecke, Johnny Dodds, and Louis Armstrong. Fully Oscar ‘Papa’ Celestin, Louis Dumaine, Lee Collins, Armand annotated box set. Piron, Freddie Keppard and Johnny Dodds. As always with JSP, the remastering is excellent and the set includes an authoritative essay by Keith Briggs.

KING OLIVER & HIS ORCHESTRA 1929 -1930 ALL STAR JAZZ QUARTETS 1921 – 1947

JSP925 4 CDs £17.99 JSP4209 2 CDs £15.99 This 97-track, 4 CD set covering the period 1927 to 1941 illustrates that virtually any combination of four These highly acclaimed re-masters by John R T Davies put instrumentalists can provide us with some swinging and the JSP reissues of classic jazz at the forefront of the reissue entertaining jazz.. There is also the occasional vocal, but scene. This music has never sounded so full with so much in the main the instruments win. Disc 1 features Brass led depth. An essential set that belongs in every jazz collection. quartets, disc 2 Reeds, disc 3 Strings & disc 4 Washboards! Artists include , Johnny Dodds, Clarence Williams, , Omer Simeon, Willie Smith, plus The Dixie Four, Four Bob Cats, Louisiana Sugar Babes & more.

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 5 11/09/2016 09:24 6 RETROSPECTIVE

EDMOND HALL – Profoundly Blue - His 22 Finest 1937-44 MUGGSY SPANIER – His 46 Finest

RTR4286 1 CD £12.99 RTR4254 2 CDs £14.99 This profile of clarinettist (1901-1967) – one Covering his career from his time with the Bucktown Five in of the greatest of the New Orleans jazz giants – makes 1924 to his performances in the mid-50s with the likes of a superb addition to the Retrospective jazz list. Hall’s Earl Hines. Includes all 16 of the superlative Ragtime Band individual style was instantly recognizable, with its broad, recordings of 1939 - ‘The Great Sixteen’. Also all eight of fast vibrato. His was hot, fiery music, full of drive and biting the quartet recordings he made with Sidney Bechet as ‘The attack – yet he possessed a wonderful feeling for the blues. Bechet-Spanier Big Four’ – both high points in the history of classic jazz. NEW!

BILLY BUTTERFIELD - What’s New? His 24 Finest 1938-1959 WILBUR de PARIS – Hot Mustard – His 38 Finest

RTR4203 1 CD £12.99 A jazz treat! This CD covers 21 years of one of the all-time RTS4259 2 CDs £15.99 greats of the trumpet: Billy Butterfield. What’s New? was the Trombonist Wilbur De Paris had a long apprenticeship with title of his first big success with Bob Crosby. In addition to Duke Ellington, but his golden years of the 50s, enshrined featuring all the milestones of his career from 1938 to 1959, on these two Retrospective CDs, genuinely extended the this CD presents many gems from long-deleted 10 inch LPs boundaries of traditional jazz. For him, jazz was a living art of the 50s made when he was at the peak of his powers. and as hot as mustard. This is New Orleans Jazz at its very George Hulme wrote in Just Jazz Billy Butterfield was one of best – over two & a half hours of invigorating jazz! the finest jazz and trumpeters. The set has excellent quality transfers. The playing time is generous. I strongly recommend this CD. NEW!

WINGY MANONE – Trumpet in the Wind 1924-1964 JUGBAND SPECIALS – 1923 – 1935

RTS4267 2 CDs £14.99 RTR4125 1 CD £12.99 Adding to Retrospective’s growing roster of great jazz This collection is very much the cream of the crop for trumpeters – a double CD devoted to the career of one Jug Band Music from the 20’s and 30’s. There are.25 of the all-time great jazz entertainers, one-armed New original tracks featuring the cream of the crop, including Orleans trumpeter Wingy Manone. Here we trace his The , Dixieland Jug Blowers, Clarence career from his earliest recordings in 1924 to his vintage Williams’ Jug Band and many more. Tracks include Boodle- years leading his own band through to 1964. 40 years of am Shake, Ankle Strut, Ripe Green Tomatoes and The Jug great jazz! NEW! Band Special.

ABE LINCOLN & his RAMPART STREET PARADERS 1953-1957 LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOT FIVES & SEVENS – West End Blues RTR4275 1 CD £12.99 The most sophisticated, the most gloriously fashioned – RTR4129 1 CD £12.99 and, for some, the best – Dixieland jazz on record. That is jazz maestro ’s verdict on these joyous This collection was compiled by Ray Crick, with final performances by the great jazz trombonist Abe Lincoln. restoration and remastering by Alan Bunting. Les Paul plays Remarkably this is his first solo CD and it covers his finest electric guitar on all tracks, and the CD was recorded in work with Matty Matlock’s Rampart Street Paraders during Les Paul’s home studio (from late 1947). It contains 26 the mid-50s. Nearly 80 minutes covers 18 titles that include of his finest tracks from 1925-1928 with his Hot Fives both familiar favourites The Sheik Of Araby and Shim-Me- and Sevens. Artists here include Johnny Dodds, Earl Hines, Sha-Wabble and little-known numbers like The March Of The NEW! Lonnie Johnson, Kid Ory and Don Redman. Mustangs and Peruna.

JAY McSHANN – Hootie’s Blues 1941-1955 LIONEL HAMPTON – Flying Home 1930 -1949

RTR4279 1 CD £12.99 A centenary tribute to Jay McShann with a superb RTS4189 2 CDs £14.99 programme covering every aspect of this great jazzman at A superb 2 CD survey of one of jazz’s all-time greats, Lionel his ebullient best. This American jazz pianist and bandleader Hampton – the virtuoso of the vibes. Lionel Hampton enjoyed a long career during which he carried the flame of (1908-2002) was a true giant of jazz, a flamboyant Kansas City jazz at its -inspired finest, as well as showman who was an indefatigable bandleader, drummer, being acknowledged as a truly great blues artist. During the pianist, singer and, above all, the most famous vibraphone early 40s his band was the training ground for such stars as player in jazz history – the first to use it as other than a Charlie Parker. NEW! novelty. These are his 48 finest tracks.

CHARLIE BARNET - The Right Idea - A Centenary Tribute FRANK TESCHEMACHER – Tesch Jazz Me Blues 1927 - 1930 RTS4225 2 CDs £14.99 RTR4194 1 CD £12.99 Retrospective celebrates the centenary of ‘Mad Mab’ – the saxophonist bandleader Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) – with This is the only CD available devoted to ‘Tesch’, the great a superb double CD selection of his great band in full flight jazz clarinettist described by Benny Goodman as: “perhaps during its finest years. He led one of the very best bands of the most inventive musician it has ever been my privilege to the 40s. A millionaire playboy, he lived riotously and married hear”. This CD retrospective of his dazzling, if brief ( he was 11 times. Musically he would not compromise & always got killed in a car crash at age 25), career should help him gain his way, as in his pioneering employment of black musicians his rightful place among the great jazz masters. 26 tracks, in a 1930s white band! The Right Idea gives 50 examples of NEW! recorded during the four short years of his fame are the the band in its heyday, led off by his famous theme tune Cherokee. very essence of ‘Chicago-style’ jazz. All his best-known tracks are here.

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 6 11/09/2016 09:24 RETROSPECTIVE 7 JAZZ LEGENDS series BEST SELLERS THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG COLLECTION 1923-1932 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Jazz at Town Hall DSOY955 1 CD £12.99 FADCD2049 2 CDs £14.99 A historic concert which represented a glorious celebration of old-time jazz. Recorded at New York’s 2 CD set focusing on the first decade of Louis Armstrong’s famed venue Town Hall in 1946, this album features recording career, including tracks with the King Oliver two bands’ worth of fabulous jazz musicians, including Creole Jazz band, selected recordings with the Fletcher Sidney Bechet, Baby Dodds, Miff Mole, Wild Bill Henderson Orchestra and Clarence Williams Blue Five and Davison, & Muggsy Spanier, who mixed landmark sessions with his Hot Five and Hot Seven which themselves together on the night as the mood directed. became a key element of the entire jazz canon. NEW! VARIOUS ARTISTS - New Orleans Masters THE BIX BIEDERBECKE COLLECTION 1924-1930 DSOY644 1 CD £12.99 FADCD2038 2 CDs £14.99 Rare live performances from some of the great men of 50 track 2 CD collection from one of the most important New Orleans Jazz – Sidney Bechet, Bunk Johnson, Kid Ory, figures in the early years of jazz –a trumpet and cornet Jelly Roll Morton and The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. player who influenced a host of contemporaries and later Recordings date from 1940-1948. performers. Beiderbecke’s life was short but he recorded a substantial body of work and this selection, which ends with his final session with Hoagy Carmichael in 1930, includes many top names of the era such as , , Joe Venuti, Benny Goodman, Pee Wee Russell and Gene Krupa. NEW! HUMPHREY LYTTELTON – Bad Penny Blues 1953-1957

RTS4108 2 CDs £14.99 THE COLLECTION 1927-1961 This 2-CD set offers 44 tracks, including Humph’s early recordings issued on 78s by Parlophone, and all but one FADCD4025 2 CDs £14.99 of the numbers from the 1954 album recorded live at the Conway Hall. Most were drawn from the existing Eddie Condon was a guitarist, banjo player and bandleader jazz repertoire, including some quite obscure items, such in the ‘Chicago school’ of early jazz who successfully as Elephant Stomp Blues. Others had their roots within negotiated the musical vagaries of swing, big band and the band, with allusions to clarinettist , until he was able to ride the wave of the Dixieland trombonist John Picard, and saxophonist Bruce Turner. revival during the 1950s. This 2 CD collection encompasses Humph’s strong lead dominates the proceedings in these a fascinating range of styles and repertoire. classic recordings. NEW!

RED NICHOLS & his FIVE PENNIES – 1926-1961 THE ROY ELDRIDGE COLLECTION 1935-1945 RTS4227 2 CDs £14.99 Cornettist Ernest Loring ‘Red’ Nichols (1905-1965) was FABCD353 1 CD £12.99 both a magnificent player and a unique catalyst under whose leadership the celebrated Five Pennies created This collection is devoted to the noted ‘hot jazz’ some of the finest ‘white jazz’ of all time. Disc One collects trumpeter of the swing and early bebop eras. It is an together 26 glorious originals from ’ vintage entertaining journey through a dynamic and exciting years of 1926-1930. Disc Two presents the very best of a period of jazz jazz featuring Eldridge with such notables string of fine LPs issued 1956/61. This is exhilarating jazz as Artie Shaw, Fletcher Henderson, Billie Holliday, Gene that has not previously appeared on CD. Krupa as well as his own bands. NEW! VARIOUS ARTISTS - Charleston! The Definitive Album 1924-1930 THE MEZZ MERROW COLLECTION 1928-1955 RTR4150 1 CD £12.99 FADCD2057 2 CDs £14.99 America made Wall Street the world’s money mart, was a jazz clarinettist and saxophonist, Hollywood the factory of the world’s day dreams, and Tin bandleader and entrepreneur, primarily associated with Pan Alley the maker of the music it danced to…the America New Orleans and Dixieland jazz. This substantial 45-track of the 1920s that passed into the file of the world’s memory collection draws from a significant proportion of the is not an America of throbbing steel production … but a recording sessions in which he participated in the quarter kind of mass idiocy and frivolity. Europe, drained of life and century and more which it covers, selecting material which invention after the war, first jeered and then eagerly copied highlights his distinctive style as an ensemble player, soloist these hectic fads – cocktails, bobbed hair, the Charleston! A and leader. NEW! generous 26 tracks in total.

GEORGE CHISHOLM – The Gentleman of Jazz 1937-1962 OTHER POPULAR TITLES IN THIS SERIES: RTS4261 2 CDs £14.99 FADCD2044 The Coleman Hawkins Collection 1927-1956 2 CDs £14.99 Celebrating the centenary of the great British jazz FADCD2037 The Clarence Williams Collection 1921-1937 trombonist Disc 1 (1937-1944) presents George from his 2 CDs £14.99 first studio session with Gerry Moore in 1937, through his FABCD358 The Lester Young Collection 1936-1947 notable early dates with such as Benny Carter, Coleman 1 CD £12.99 Hawkins, , and Danny Polo’s Swing Stars, plus FADCD2039 The Charlie Barnet Collection 1935-1947 his 1938 Jive 5 & 1944 Jive 8 recordings & some from the 2 CDs £14.99 years he spent with The Squadronaires. Disc 2 (1947- FABCD351 The Benny Carter Collection 1929-1947 1 CD £12.99 1962) shows how his style shifted in the 50s towards FADCD2047 The Muggsy Spanier Collection 1924-1949 2 CDs £14.99 mainstream jazz, but he never forsook ‘Trad’, as this disc also demonstrates.

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 7 11/09/2016 09:24 8 JAZZ CRUSADE

SAMMY RIMINGTON & THE MOULDY 5 – Reed My Lips LOUIS ARMSTRONG – A Satchel Full of Sach

JCCD3069 1 CD £ 12.99 JCCD3045 1 CD £ 12.99 This 19 track CD features three exceptionally rare sessions This is take no prisoners jazz - a tropical storm put to music! by Louis Armstrong. It’s nice to hear music from the great Recorded in 1999, this CD features Sammy Rimington’s man that you won’t have heard before, as these sides have clarinet with Bill Sinclair on piano, Emil Marks banjo, Colin not been released commercially until now. Featured artists Bray string bass and Big Bill Bissonnette on drums. include Jack Teagarden, Fats Waller and Edmond Hall.

EASY RIDER’S JAZZ BAND – Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams ZUTTY SINGLETON – Drum Face Volume 1

JCCD3060 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3114 1 CD £12.99 A career retrospective of the great jazz drummer - Zutty This was the first time The Easy Riders got together in 31 Singleton. The CD features Zutty with many of the great years, and the CD really swings! It includes the last three men of jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, tracks of Mouldy Dick McCarthy who died shortly after this Charlie LeVere, Pee Wee Russell, Sidney Bechet & Roy session from April 1998. Led by Big Bill Bissonnette with Eldridge. Fred Vigorito, Sammy Rimington and Paul Boehmke, Bill Volume 2 is on JCCD3115 @ £12.99 Sinclair & Emil Mark, Arnie Hyman, Mouldy Dick McCarthy OR JCCD7007 Special Price for both CDs £22.00 & John Russell.

Jazz Nocturne 3 – BUNK AND BECHET IN BOSTON TUBA FATS CHOSEN FEW BRASS BAND & JAZZMEN – Street Music

JCCD3040 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3080 1 CD £12.99 What you have here is two of the most creative personalities in jazz history - Bunk Johnson and Sidney Nine tracks from Tuba Fats’ Chosen Few Brass Band Bechet - playing many seldom heard songs with a rhythm recorded in New Orleans in November 1985 plus four section that knows it all in the shape of Ray Parker, George tracks of Tuba Fats’ Jazzmen recorded in April 2002 in New Thompson and Pops Foster. These rare recordings are of Orleans. This is marching band music that brings everyone high historical interest for any jazz fan!. out onto the street.

Jazz Nocturne 4 – BOCAGE & BECHET IN BOSTON WILBUR De PARIS – An Evening at Jimmy Ryan’s Volume 1

JCCD3041 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3009 1 CD £12.99

This CD continues the broadcasts of Sidney Bechet’s New The first volume of this popular series, is from the Dr. Jazz Orleans Rhythm Kings from the Savoy Cafe in Boston in Radio Series and records the band at its very best. New York the spring of 1945. Bocage, like Bechet, believed that great loved them! Personnel are Wilbur de Paris, Sidney de Paris, jazz could be made from any tune and consequently the Omer Simeon, Eddie Gibbs, Don Kirkpatrick, Freddie Moore choice of music is quite unusual - interesting music played and Zutty Singleton/ George Foster. by experienced musicians in the New Orleans style. It was Volume 2 JCCD3061 Volume 3 JCCD3068 @ £12.99 each lucky that a few enthusiasts thought to record it ‘off air’ on OR JCCD7008 All three CDs £35 acetates so that you can all enjoy it again.

SAMMY RIMINGTON & BIG BILL BISSONETTE – Watering THE CHURCH ALLEY IRREGULARS with Brian Carrick The Roots JCCD3098 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3011 1 CD £12.99 Jazz Crusade’s founder Bill Bissonnette wanted to make Big Bill wrote in the notes that it is essential to “water a recording with his favourite British jazz musicians - and the roots” of New Orleans jazz to keep the flame burning. this is it! The band had not played together before and they This CD was recorded in 1955 and the personnel were were recorded in Church Alley - hence the name! The line-up jazz perfection as Sammy and Big Bill were joined by Eric is simply stunning - Norman Thatcher, Geoff Cole, Brian Webster, Ken Matthews and Colin Bowden, with special Carrick, Tony Pyke, Malcolm Hogarth, Malcolm Hurrell, Annie guest Sarah Bissonnette. There are some great tunes here Hawkins & Dion Cochrane. which are rarely heard in the New Orleans style!

GEORGE LEWIS – Jammin’ In The Fifties JOHNNY PARKER with KEN COLYER – At The 100 Club

JCCD3029 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3054 1 CD £12.99 Recorded in the 100 Club in 1984, Ken Colyer and Johnny The Lewis band in its heyday during the 50s featuring Big Jim Parker are joined by Graham Stewart, Alan Cooper, Jim Robinson, Alcide ‘Slow Drag’ Pavageau, Alton Purnell, Punch Bray and Dave Evans with special guest appearances by Miller and Paul Barbarin. Three separate sessions here from Diz Disley and Wally Fawkes. A good time was had by all, 1950, 1951 and 1958. Is doesn’t get any better than this! wallowing in nostalgia and draught beer. All except Ken Colyer, who stuck to his gin and tonic! A great night!

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 8 11/09/2016 09:24 JAZZ CRUSADE 9 JAZZ CRUSADE JAZZ CRUSADE RARE CUTS SERIES JAZZ CRUSADE BESTSELLERS RARE CUTS – Well Done! Volume 1 NORMAN THATCHER’S RAGTIME BAND - What Do You Want Me To Do? JCCD3059 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3028 1 CD £12.99 The first volume in a series of rare recordings from this popular American label. The first 2 tracks feature The George Norman Thatcher was nothing if not versatile. While he Lewis Ragtime Band recorded in 1952. The band features made his reputation leading the Ken Colyer Trust New Big Jim Robinson, Alton Purnell & ‘Slow Drag’ Pavageau. The Orleans Jazz Band he is no mere Colyer clone! There is only second set features Bunk Johnson. Recorded in 1946 the a touch of Britain’s most successful trumpet player in his band includes George Lewis. The third set features the rarely style - and that in sublime moderation. This is an unusual recorded Richard M. Jones Jazz Wizards from 1944. album for him - and indeed for Jazz Crusade - drawing more on Bix Biederbecke than any of the others!

RARE CUTS – Well Done! Volume 2 KEN COLYER with THE CLASSIC JAZZBAND – Colyer in Stockholm

JCCD3066 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3007 1 CD £12.99 8 tracks from Jimmy Noone’s ‘Yes Yes Club’. Then there Featured again by popular demand! This was to become are 3 tracks from Henry ’s All-Stars including Kid Ken’s last recording – a worthy testament for a great jazz Ory and Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, , Lil musician. The music on this CD was recorded on 28th June Armstrong and Zutty Singleton or Gene Krupa. And 8 tracks 1986 at the Stockholm Jazz Festival, recorded at Ken’s from ’s Band featuring Albert Walters, Joe request as a document to his stay in Sweden. He is heard ‘Brother Cornbread’ Thomas and Louis Barbarin on drums. here with Sweden’s Classic Jazz Band. Colyer in Stockholm Volume 2 is on JCCD3103 1 CD £12.99

RARE CUTS – Well Done! Volume 3 KID ORY & RED ALLEN – A Jazz Concert in Berlin 1st Set

JCCD3072 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3125 1 CD £12.99 In the mid fifties many traditional jazz bands made the trek The music here is very exciting and the ‘jazzmanship’ to New York City to perform at one of its most prestigious phenomenal – a great mix of black and white musicians jazz venues, Child’s Paramount Restaurant. Paul Barbarin swinging together! Recorded for Kid Ory as part of his made the journey in 1954 and these tracks are the result. European Tour agreement in 1959. So welcome to Cold The second band is the fabulous Wilbur DeParis band. We War Berlin just two years before the wall went up to keep have three airshots from 1958 and features Sidney DeParis East Berliners from having the sort of fun you’ll be listening and Omer Simeon in what was one of the slickest bands in to on this record! the history of traditional jazz. The Second Set is on JCCD3126 1 CD £12.99

RARE CUTS – Well Done! Volume 4 THATCHER, BLOUNT & VICKERS – River Stay ‘Way

JCCD3075 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3018 1 CD £12.99 This album groups some interesting New Orleans jazz from This CD features some of the finest British jazzmen from the 30s and 40s featuring early George Guesnon sides, three of the UK’s top bands – The Ken Colyer Trust New originally recorded on Decca. They are great and original Orleans Jazz Band, The Jubilee Jazz Band and the Chris Guesnon pieces and definitely collectable. It also features Blount New Orleans Jazz Band – coming together for a a live session from the Kid Thomas Band of the early 70s, session at The Bull at Barnes in December 1995. It features plus a host of stars pay tribute to Johnny St Cyr on his lots of unusual tunes and a great ensemble! Dave Brennan 72nd birthday! and Malc Murphy also feature here.

RARE CUTS – Well Done! Volume 5 TRAD JAZZ AROUND THE WORLD Volume 1 Australia, Scotland & Sweden

JCCD3088 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3023 1 CD £12.99 The thread that weaves through all these undiscovered Three great bands from around the world in this 1990s gems is the fluid clarinet of Edmund Hall - a true jazz series of recordings of great New Orleans Jazz from around legend! The three bands featured here are Henry ‘Red’ the world. Starting with The Louisiana Shakers from Allen and his Orchestra recorded in December 1947, Australia, which produces some great home-grown bands Edmund Hall and Punch Miller, also from December 1947 which deserve an airing. Next up we have a Scottish band - and WC Handy’s Orchestra from December 1939. Jake’s Melody Boys – who are equally in demand in England as their native land. And finally, from Sweden Jesse’s New Orleans Jazz Band – led by Jens ‘Jesse’ Lindgren, who is well known to British jazz fans.

RARE CUTS – Well Done! Volume 6 KID SHEIK & BROTHER CORNBREAD – In Copenhagen 1974

JCCD3092 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3002 1 CD £12.99

Capt John Handy is mainly associated with the alto sax, but A recording of a wonderful tour of Scandinavia in 1974 he was also a fine clarinet player as these tracks will testify. by Kid Sheik Cola with special guest Joseph ‘Brother The personnel here is unusual, but included Alvin Alcorn Cornbread’ Thomas, a New Orleans old stager and first and Placide Adams. They were recorded in New Orleans in class clarinet! The Kid had to work hard to ensure that August 1965. The second session on this disc dates from the Cornbread did not get all the attention, and when you beginning of 1952 and sees Jimmy Archey playing trombone listen to the end result here, I think you will agree that both on unissued airshots from Jimmy Ryan’s. Kid Sheik and Brother Cornbread were seriously underrated.

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 9 11/09/2016 09:24 10 UPBEAT COLLECTIONS

IN RETROSPECT SERIES – £12.99 SINGLE CD EACH OR £14.99 DOUBLE CD URCD268D TJ Johnson – Double CD celebration of 30 years in Jazz and Blues URCD269 Terry Lightfoot – Single CD reissue of Stardust to mark 2 years since he died URCD270 Roger Marks – Single CD marking his 20 year anniversary

THE KEN COLYER COLLECTION – £12.99 EACH URCD149 Ken Colyer – The Classic Years Volume 1 Recorded in 1957 Ken with Ian Wheeler, Mac Duncan, Johnny Bastable, Ron Ward & Colin Bowden URCD189 Ken Colyer – The Classic Years Volume 2 Eel Pie Island 1957 Ken with Ian Wheeler, Mac Duncan, Johnny Bastable, Ron Ward & Colin Bowden URCD202 Ken Colyer – The Classic Years Volume 3 Recorded in Nottingham in 1960. Ken with Ian Wheeler, Brian Wooley, Mac Duncan, Ray Foxley, Johnny Bastable, Ron Ward & Colin Bowden URCD130 Ken Colyer Very Very Live at the 100 Club Band includes Sammy Rimington, Colin Bowden & Annie Hawkins URCD159 The Crane River Jazz Band – Storming Session Germany 1973 with bonus tracks from Pizza Express 1977 URCD165 Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen & Skiffle Group – Captured Moments NDR broadcasts & Live recordings from Germany 1955 URCD173 Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen – Serenading Auntie Re – mastered BBC Jazz Club recordings from 1955 – 1960 URCD137 Ken Colyer’s All Star Jazz Band/ The Crane River Jazz Band – Once More for Auntie BBC Broadcasts from 1972,1975 & 1977 URCD198 The Lost 1954 Royal Festival Hall Tapes – Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen & Skiffle Group. Personnel include Barber & Donegan. Our fastest selling CD ever! URCD205 More Lost 1954 RFH Tapes – Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen – Plus classic line – ups from Bristol & Nottingham 1960 URCD217 Ken Colyer Studio 51 Sessions 1972 – Ken Colyer Allstars. Club sessions from Jan/Feb 1972 Runs 71 minutes URCD222 Ken Colyer Studio 51 Sessions 1972 – Ken Colyer Allstars Volume 2 Club sessions from April/ May 1972 Runs 74 minutes URCD161 A Boston Concert – Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen Ken with Sammy Rimington, Barry Palser, Ray Smith, Peter Morcom, Alan Johns & Colin Bowden. June 1972 URCD167 In the Sweet Bye & Bye – Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen The Dieter Kreuter tapes Volume 1 Studio 51 August 1958 URCD170 Somewhere over the Rainbow – Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen The Dieter Kreuter tapes Volume 2 Studio 51 August 1958 URCD210 Ken Colyer Live at York Arts Centre 1972 – Ken Colyer’s Allstars with over an hour of glorious sounds! URCD211 The Sunny Side of Ken Colyer – Ken Colyer’s Allstars 1972 featuring Sammy Rimington. Re – released by popular demand URCD257 Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen – Live Rediscovered Treasures from the Classic Years Eel Pie Island 1957 – rare treasures including vocals from Rosina Scudder URCD265 Colyer from The Archives featuring Sammy Rimington – a live Thames riverboat session dates from the early 70s

THE CHRIS BARBER COLLECTION – £12.99 EACH URCD146 Chris Barber at the BBC 1961 – 62 – Wireless Days Chris Barber’s Jazz Band featuring Ottilie Patterson URCD158 Chris Barber with Joe Harriott, Ottilie Patterson, Bobby Breen, Ian Arnott 1963 URCD177 Chris Barber at the BBC 1961 – 63 More Wireless Days Chris Barber’s Jazz Band featuring Ottilie Patterson URCD118 – Volume 1: Chris Barber, Lonnie Donegan, Monty Sunshine, Ken Colyer, Acker Bilk, Bob Wallis URCD120 – Volume 3: Chris Barber, Terry Lightfoot, The Temperance Seven URCD125 – Volume 5: Chris Barber, Ken Colyer, Monty Sunshine, Bruce Turner

THE HUMPHREY LYTTELTON CLASSICS – £12.99 EACH URCD138 This Old Gang of Ours – & Humphrey Lyttelton Original Calligraph LP from 1985 plus 2 bonus tracks from CLGCD13 from 1986 URCD168 It Seems Like Yesterday – Humphrey Lyttelton & Wally Fawkes – Original Calligraph LP from 1983 plus bonus tracks from the Bull’s Head 1984. URCD174 The Humphrey Lyttelton Big Band with Jimmy Rushing – BBC Jazz Club sessions from Autumn 1958 URCD182 Humph, Bruce & Sandy Swing at the BBC – Broadcasts from 1956 – 1960 Humph & his band, Bruce Turner 4 and Fairweather – Brown Allstars URCD186 A Night in Oxford Street 1957 – Jimmy Rushing with Humphrey Lyttelton & his Band – Original recording by Joe Meek. Runs 72 minutes URCD223 Humphrey Lyttelton & his Band PLUS tracks from the Paseo Jazz Band 1953 – 1956 Privately recorded acetates URCD234 Claude Lutter in England with Humphrey Lyttelton 1985 featuring the original Bad Penny Blues rhythm section, Parker, Bray & Grieg

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BEST OF BRITISH JAZZ FROM THE BBC – £12.99 EACH URCD118 – Volume 1: Chris Barber, Lonnie Donegan, Monty Sunshine, Ken Colyer, Acker Bilk, Bob Wallis URCD119 – Volume 2: Humphrey Lyttelton, Sandy Brown URCD120 – Volume 3: Chris Barber, Terry Lightfoot, The Temperance Seven URCD122 – Volume 4: Alex Welsh, with George Melly, Diz Disley URCD125 – Volume 5: Chris Barber, Ken Colyer, Monty Sunshine, Bruce Turner URCD127 – Volume 6: , Cy Laurie, Harry Gold, Sonny Morris, George Chisholm, Ken Colyer, Lonnie Donegan URCD171 – Volume 7: Ken Colyer, Graham Stewart, Cy Laurie, Mike Daniels URCD172 – Volume 8: Humphrey Lyttelton, Sandy Brown, Mick Mulligan with George Melly URCD183 – Volume 9: Mike Daniels, Ken Colyer, Diz Disley, Mick Mulligan with George Melly, The Saints Jazz Band URCD152 BBC Jazz From the 70s & 80s in Stereophonic Sound Volume 1 Humphrey Lyttelton, Alan Elsdon, Sammy Rimington, Pat Halcox & URCD153 BBC Jazz From the 70s & 80s in Stereophonic Sound Volume 2 Chris Barber, , Digby Fairweather, Bruce Turner URCD155 BBC Jazz From the 70s & 80s in Stereophonic Sound Volume 3 Ken Colyer, , Cy Laurie, George Chisholm URCD157 Kenny Ball at the BBC – The Airshots BBC Broadcasts from 1967 – 1972 17 tracks 62 minutes URCD164 At The Jazz Band Ball BBC Broadcasts from 1962 featuring Monty Sunshine, Alan Elsdon, Bob Wallis, Terry Lightfoot, George Melly & more URCD169 At The Jazz Band Ball Volume 3 – BBC broadcasts from 1962 with Humphrey Lyttelton, Fairweather – Brown All Stars, Diz Disley & Alex Welsh URCD185 The Temperance Seven – Those BBC Years The original Temps in BBC broadcasts from 1962 URCD230 Barber, Ball & Bilk at The Jazz Band Ball 1962 Chris Barber & his Band , Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen and Mr Acker Bilk & his Paramount Jazz Band

THE PORTRAIT SERIES – PORTRAITS OF THE GREAT JAZZ MASTERS – £12.99 EACH URCD176 Papa Mutt Carey – Portrait of a New Orleans Master with his New Yorkers, Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band & Hociel Thomas URCD187 Kid Ory – Portrait of the Greatest Slideman Ever Born featuring Ory’s Sunshine Orchestra, The All – Star Jazz Group and The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Line – up URCD195 A Portrait of Sydney Bechet in Paris 1937 & 1952 with Noble Sissle’s Swingers, Sydney Bechet & his Feetwarmers and the Sydney Bechet Trio URCD197 A Portrait of George Lewis from Burgundy Street to Berlin – includes tracks with Bunk Johnson and Ken Colyer URCD204 A Portrait of Louis Armstrong – Birth of the Allstars Tracks from 1947 – 1954 Artists include , Edmond Hall, , Eddie Condon and Jack Teagarden URCD215 A Portrait of Muggsy Spanier A – Z featuring Sidney Bechet, Eddie Condon, Jimmy Dorsey, , Benny Goodman & Coleman Hawkins URCD225 A Portrait of Johnny Dodds – King of the Blues Clarinet Bands include King Oliver’s Creole JB, Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Johnny Dodds & his Chicago Boys URCD231 A Portrait of Jelly Roll Morton – Oh Mr Jelly! – 77 minutes from the originator of Jazz & Stomps Artists include King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers URCD235 A Portrait of Bunk Johnson – Bunk’s Blues – Tracks from 1942 – 1945. A detailed insight into the life and work of a legendary master of New Orleans trumpet URCD238 A Portrait of Louis Jordan – Let the Good Times Roll The Birth of Rhythm & Blues featuring , Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong URCD242 A Portrait of Sister Rosetta Thorpe – The One & Only Queen of Hot Gospel Includes her hilarious public wedding ceremony URCD256 Louis Armstrong – Young Satchmo – The Birth of a Jazz Genius – Louis the Slideman 1923-1927. Critics Top 10 Choice 2014 URCD243 Louis Prima – Sing Sing Sing – This CD traces his charismatic talent from 1933-1955

THE LONNIE DONEGAN SERIES – £12.99 EACH URCD200 This Yere De Story – Lonnie’s life and music in his own words URCD212 The Last Tour – His final live recording from 2002 URCD214 Jubilee Concert from the Fairfield Hall 1st Half featuring Ken Colyer, Chris Barber & Monty Sunshine URCD218 Jubilee Concert from the Fairfield Hall 2nd Halffeaturing Ken Colyer, Chris Barber & Monty Sunshine URCD226 Lonnie Live! Rare tapes from the late 1960s

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UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 11 11/09/2016 09:24 12 More Collections from UPBEAT JAZZ & JAZZ CRUSADE

THE AMERICAN COLLECTION – £12.99 EACH THE GEORGE LEWIS COLLECTION – SINGLE CDs £12.99 DOUBLE CDs £14.99 URCD135 KENNY DAVERN/ART HODES Jazz plus 11 tracks produced for the hit – The Last Reunion parade and jukebox market. URCD221 GEORGE LEWIS – In Hi-Fi Plus URCD244D GEORGE LEWIS RAGTIME Recorded at Pizza Express London in 1988. URCD232 WILBUR DE PARIS New New 16 tracks from 1955 & 1956 running 72+ BAND – Jass at the Ohio Union (2 CDs) The trio is completed by Colin Bowden. Orleans Jazz Band minutes. This legendary recording is one of our fastest selling albums ever! URCD163 VIC LEWIS & 1953 & 1954 URCD224 GEORGE LEWIS On Stage JACK PARNELL’S JAZZMEN – Featuring Sidney de Paris, Omer Simeon 1956 & At Newport 1957 Singin’ the Blues and Zutty Singleton. 69+ minutes of 17 terrific tracks running 64+ minutes. 24 outstanding recordings from great sounds. 1944 – 46. Youthful exuberance from URCD233D GEORGE LEWIS the early years of these players. & ALTON PURNELL (2 CDs) 3 LPs on 2 CDs with 16 tracks per URCD192 VIC LEWIS’ NEW YORK CD running over 2 hours! JAZZMEN with Bobby Hackett Vintage recordings from 1938 featuring URCD237D GEORGE LEWIS & HIS Bobby Hackett, Eddie Condon and Zutty ORCHESTRA – Dr Jazz/Blues from the Singleton, plus bonus Jam Session from Bayou (2 CDs) 1944 featuring George Chisholm and Jack 2 LPs plus the complete Jazz Man session. Parnell. URCD240D VINTAGE GEORGE LEWIS URCD219 JOE TURNER – The Boss of 1954/55 (2 CDs) the Blues A perennial bestseller with classic tracks Tracks from 1955 & 1956 Kansas City from 1954 and 1955.

THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN – £12.99 EACH The Kid Ory Series URCD185 THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN – URCD220 THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN – URCD259 KID ORY – The Original Jazz URCD236 KID ORY – The Kid From New Those BBC Years The Writing on the Wall 1 CD £12.99 Orleans BBC broadcasts from 1962 – at the Recorded in 1991, all the usual suspects 1957 studio recording The Original Jazz A long unavailable Verve album plus two height of the band’s glory. 24 toetapping and antics – 17 tracks including Dog plus 2 tracks from Dance With Kid Ory tracks from his 1957 appearance at the tracks running 63 minutes. Featuring the Bottom and Mornington Crescent. or Just Listen and a further 2 from Newport Jazz Festival with Red Allen & Jack mellifluous voice of Paul McDowell. Kid Ory in Europe. teagarden. 78+ minutes of great jazz. URCD216 The Best of the Temperance URCD203 THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN – Seven URCD262D KID ORY – Storyville URCD241 KID ORY – Song of the Tea for Eight Taken from URCDs 203, 208 and 220, Nights 2 CDs £14.99 Wayfarer & Dance or Just Listen The much requested reissue of our first these are their greatest hits including 3 LPs on 2 CDs. In addition to Storyville 1 CD £12.99 ever CD! The Temps at their very best! Home in Pasadena, Me and Jane in a Plane, Nights there are tracks from a rare LP One and a half CDs on one disc – an Includes Tea for Two, Hard Hearted Hannah Tea for Two and Ukulele Lady. Released to Dixieland Marching Songs and Ory’s amazing 74 + minutes of New Orleans and Ukulele Lady. celebrate the 50th anniversary of the one final LP, Kid Ory Plays WC Handy. jazz. Both recordings date from 1957 and and only “Temps”. were recorded in Los Angeles. URCD208 THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN – URCD187 A Portrait of KID ORY– The 33 Not Out Greatest Slideman Ever Born Sparkling gems from yesteryear including 1 CD £12.99 Happy Feet, You, You’re Driving Me Crazy This portrait – with recordings from 1921, and Chilli Bom Bom. Released in 1990 to 1944 and 1971 demonstrates Ory’s skill celebrate 33 Years in showbiz and also the as well as his longevity! 28 glorious tracks. band’s love of cricket!

Little Gems £12.99 each More Rare Cuts – Well Done! FROM JAZZ CRUSADE URCD245 CLIFF “UKULELE IKE” URCD178 THE PETE ALLEN JAZZ BAND SINGLE CDS @ £12.99 EDWARDS – I Did It With My Little Ukulele – Running Wild JCCD3101 Rare Cuts - Well Done! JCCD3123 Rare Cuts - Well Done! The ukulele is back in fashion, and this Allen has been leading his own band for Volume 7 Volume 12 newly re-mastered, 27 song selection is the many years – but the line-up on this CD Omer Simeon Rarest & greatest tracks New Orleans Obscurities Dodds / Bechet very best of this much loved artist, Ukulele is possibly his best ever! 61+ minutes of 1929-1954. / Noone. Ike, and his newly re-discovered instrument. great sounds including Cornet Chop Suey He starred in over 100 films and sold over a and Running Wild. JCCD3109 Rare Cuts - Well Done! JCCD3129 Rare Cuts - Well Done! million records! Tracks include My Dog Loves Volume 8 Volume 13 URCD181 SONNY MORRIS & FRIENDS Your Dog, If I had You and the title track I Did Albert Nichols / Edmond Hall / Armstrong / Krupa / Bonano / Nichols – In Germany 1999-2000 It with My Little Ukulele. George Lewis. & more. Ian Wheeler, Ray Smith, Dickie Bishop, URCD147 BRUCE TURNER – The Dirty Colin Bowden and Lutz Eickelman all excel. JCCD3112 Rare Cuts - Well Done! Bopper 1985 Volume 9 The Original Calligraph Album plus 3 Franz Jackson / Onward Brass Band. bonus tracks of Bruce with Humph’s Band JCCD3116 Rare Cuts - Well Done! from the Bull’s Head. Volume 10 URCD154 GEORGE CHISHOLM’S Black Horns De Paris / Ladnier / Collins. GENTLEMEN OF JAZZ A Tribute to George Chisholm from the JCCD3119 Rare Cuts - Well Done! Gentlemen of Jazz featuring his daughter Volume 11 Carole Chisholm. 17 tracks in total. Slip Horns Ory / Jackson / Wheeler.

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Special Offers from JAZZ CRUSADE JASMINE BEST SElLERS JCCD7001 RARE CUTS – WELL DONE! Volumes 1 & 2 DUKES of DIXIELAND – Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? 2 CDs £22 JCCD3059 JCCD3066 JASCD786 2 CDs £14.99 Volume 1 features George Lewis at Artisan Hall from 1952, New Orleans has a special place in the history of jazz, and Bunk Johnson from 1946 and Billie & Dee Dee Pierce from Dukes of Dixieland has a special place in the story of New 1967 Orleans. As natives of this city rich in musical tradition it Volume 2 has tracks by Jimmy Noone’s Yes Yes Club, Red was inevitable that their chosen path would lead down Allen’s All Stars featuring Kid Ory and Papa Celestin’s Band that well-trodden road - Dukes Of Dixieland is a perfect without Papa but with Pee Wee Russell, Albert French and illustration of a jazz combo which has taken the legacy Louis Barbarin. they inherited as New Orleans musicians and gone on to greater things. NEW!

JCCD7002 JAZZ NOCTURNE - Bunk & Bechet in PETE FOUNTAIN – Swing Low Sweet Clarinet Boston Volumes 1 & 2 JASCD768 2 CDs £14.99 Pete Fountain’s life story has been wholly in harmony with 2 CDs £22 JCCD3036 JCCD3039 Jazz, and here is a veritable feast of tracks from some of his LPs covering the period 1959-1962. This is music from Rare sessions recorded in Boston in the spring of 1945 excellent musicians playing songs that are as familiar bringing together two jazz greats Bunk Johnson & Sidney as the seasons of the year. Alongside the well-known Bechet with Ray Parker, George Thompson, Sidney Bechet standards Pete touches on the French influence in New Orleans – all accompanied by an orchestra which is part and Pops Foster. Bourbon Street and part Champs Elyssées. You feel yourself being transported to a café somewhere in Paris. As this compilation attests, you can take the musicians out of Bourbon Street but you can’t take Bourbon Street out of NEW! man like Pete Fountain. JCCD7003 RARE CUTS – WELL DONE! Volumes 3 & 4 IT’S BACK! THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ 2 CDs £22 JCCD3072 JCCD3075

Volume 3 features 2 bands from the 1950s: 11 tracks of JASBOX 4-4 4 CDs £18.99 Paul Barbarin and his band in New York in 1954 plus 5 tracks Ever popular collection of Jazz favourites in a 4 CD set. 96 from three airshots from Wilbur deParis from 1958 featuring Original tracks - including Kid Ory – Turk Murphy – Bunk Omer Simeon. On Volume 4 there are 7 early George Johnson – Bobby Hackett – Edmund Hall - Louis Armstrong Guesnon sides which are definitely collectable. Then 5 tracks - Muggsy Spanier - Red Allen – Jelly Roll Morton – Jimmy from the Kid Thomas Band featuring Louis Nelson and Noone – Miff Mole – Wingy Manone – Red Allen – Sidney Paul Barnes from 1974 and finally JOHNNY ST CYR 73rd Bechet – Jack Teagarden – Red Nichols - Louis Prima and BIRTHDAY GREETINGS recorded in New Orleans in 1963. many more.

JCCD7004 KID ORY & RED ALLEN – A Jazz Concert in LONNIE DONEGAN - The Singles As & Bs 1954-1961 Berlin 1959 1st and 2nd Sets

2 CDs £22 JCCD3125 JCCD3126 JASCD224 2 CDs £14.99 The music here is very exciting and the ‘jazzmanship’ This unique 58-track, 2 CD collection contains all his phenomenal! A great mix of black and white musicians singles, both A- and B-sides issued between 1954-1961. swinging together! Recorded for Kid Ory as part of his Features 32 UK hits, including Lonnie’s four UK No. 1s European Tour agreement in 1959. So welcome to Cold War Cumberland Gap, Gamblin’ Man, Putting On The Style and Berlin at the height of tensions between East and West just My Old Man’s A Dustman. two years before the wall went up to keep East Berliners from having the sort of fun you’ll be listening to on these records!

JCCD7005 TRAD JAZZ AROUND THE WORLD in three volumes BUNK JOHNSON - Bunk and the New Orleans Revival - Various Artists COVER JCCD3023 1924-1947

3 CDs £33 JCCD3023 JCCD3031 JCCD3044 JASCD635 2 CDs £14.99 Three great CDs in a 1990s series of recordings of first rate New Orleans Jazz from around the world. Volume One of the finest names in jazz - here are 43 tracks of 1 features bands from Sweden, Australia and Scotland. Bunk with various bands that he led including the Yerba Volume 2 has bands from Japan, Canada and Belgium, Buena Jazzband, The Street Paraders, Bunk’s Brass Band, while Volume 3 features bands from France, Brazil and Bunk’s New Orleans Jazzband, The V-Disc Veterans and the USA. The Bunk Johnson Trio.

JCCD7006 WILBUR DePARIS – Live in Europe 1960 & Live in Canada 1956 ACKER BILK - Mr Acker Bilk Requests

2 CDs £22 JCCD3032 Live in Canada JCCD3082 Live in Europe JASCD739 2 CDs £14.99 JCCD3032 De Paris in Canada dates from 1956 and features Omer Simeon, Sonny White with special guests 50 tracks that perfectly reflect the career of one of the Jimmy Rushing vocals and Willie ‘the Lion’ Smith piano. great British jazz icons He was part of the jazz boom that JCCD3082 DeParis in Europe has recordings dating from swept the UK in the 1950s but he always had his own June 1960 and were recorded in France. The 11 tracks see inimitable style. This is the perfect Bilk showcase and Wilbur in fine form and he swings more than usual. Sidney includes all his greatest hits and a whole lot more. blows some great stuff! It’s Wilbur and Sidney’s one last fling - God bless them for the good times they gave us!

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UPBEAT SERIES – SPECIAL OFFERS!

AT THE JAZZ BAND BALL KEN COLYER Classic Years – Volumes 1 – 3

URCD001 3 CDs £33 URCD008 3 CDs £33 URCD149, URCD189 and URCD202. URCD164, URCD230 and URCD169. Three CDs from the Classic Colyer band Featured artists here are Barber, Ball & Bilk featuring Ken with Ian Wheeler, Mac Duncan, plus Monty Sunshine, Bob Wallis, Alan Elsdon, Ray Foxley, Johnny Bastable, Ron Ward, and Humphrey Lyttelton, Alex Welsh, Diz Disley, Colin Bowden. Tracks from 1957 at Studio 51, Fairweather – Brown and Terry Lightfoot. 1957 at Eel Pie Island and 1960 at The Dancing Slipper.

SIMPLY THE BEST BRITISH JAZZ FROM THE 1950s LONNIE DONEGAN Jubilee Concert 1981

URCD002 2 CDs £19.99 URCD009 2 CDs £19.99

URCD209 and URCD213. URCD214 First half and URCD218 second Featured artists on this set include Humphrey half of the Fairfield Hall Jubilee concert in 1981 Lyttelton, Harry Gold, Chris Barber, Lonnie featuring Lonnie with Ken Colyer, Pat Halcox, Donegan, Christie Brothers, Crane River Jazz Chris Barber, Monty Sunshine, Jim Bray & Band, Ken Colyer, Cy Laurie, Sandy Brown Colin Bowden! What a line – up! and many more!

RICHARD BAKER’S Favourite Classics – 4 volumes THE FULL MONTY SUNSHINE – Volumes 1 & 2

URCD003 4 Volumes £44 URCD010 2 CDs £19.99

Classical hits with Leland Chen playing violin URCD184 features Beryl Bryden and favourites, Carlos Bonell guitar classics, Allan George Melly in BBC broadcasts from Schiller piano lollipops and Ian Partridge and 1961 – 62, plus an NDR broadcast from 1967, Beryl Korman singing songs & encores while URCD206 has tracks from 1980 – 90. accompanied by Jennifer Partridge.

THE MAC DUNCAN JAZZ BAND – Live at the Lord Napier 1973 GEORGE LEWIS COLLECTION

URCD005 2 CDs £19.99 URCD011 4 Double CDs £45 URCD188 and URCD201. These two CDs feature Mac Duncan and Sonny Morris in ‘live’ sessions Fantastic offer – all four of our double from the Lord Napier in 1973. There are also George Lewis CDs for a terrific price! bonus tracks – the only recording of Frantique URCD233D George Lewis & Alton Purnell, Jazz Band featuring Mac and Sonny with URCD237D Dr Jazz & Blues from the Len Jacobs, Jack Hobbs, John Griffith, Fred Belsey and Tony Bayou, URCD240D Vintage George Lewis Kinsey. and URCD244D Jass at the Ohio Union.

KEN COLYER – The Dieter Kreuter Tapes BBC JAZZ From The 70s & 80s in 3 volumes

URCD012 3 CDs £33 URCD006 2 CDs £19.99 All the greats of British jazz in 3 volumes of BBC recordings from the 70s & 80s including Classic Colyer from Studio 51 in 1958 Humphrey Lyttelton, Alan Elsdon, Sammy URCD167 and URCD170. Ken with Rimington, Chris Barber, Beryl Bryden, Ian Wheeler, Mac Duncan, Johnny Bastable, Digby Fairweather, Bruce Turner, Ken Colyer, Ray Foxley, Ron Ward and Colin Bowden. George Chisholm, Cy Laurie and many more! URCD152, 153 and 155.

ALEX WELSH EARLY HUMPHREY LYTTELTON

URCD013 4 CD SET £44 URCD007 3 CDs £33 URCD174 URCD182 URCD186 URCD223 URCD175, URCD191 and URCD193 URCD174 features Humph with his Big Band in 1958 BBC BBC Broadcasts Jazz Club sessions with Jimmy Rushing. URCD182 has Oh! Baby from 1979 & 81, Just One More BBC broadcasts from 1956 – 1960 plus 4 tracks of the Chance from 1966, 67 & 72 and finally Bones Fairweather – Brown Allstars. URCD186 dates from 1957 for the King from 1966, 74 & 76. at the 100 Club. URCD223 is from privately recorded acetates from 1953 – 56, including tracks from the Paseo Jazz Band.

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HUMPH IN THE 80s THE LONDON SWING ORCHESTRA

URCD020 4 CD SET £44 URCD014 3 CD SET £33 URCD249 URCD255 URCD263 URCD266 URCD138 URCD168 URCD234 The complete 4 CD history of 20th century popular music from the popular London Swing Orchestra recently featured These three CDs see Humph in fine form – an original on Friday Night Is Music Night . URCD249 is The Roaring Calligraph CD from 1985 featuring Kenny Davern, a second Twenties, URCD255 is The Elegant Thirties. URCD263 is The Calligraph LP, this time from 1983 featuring Wally Fawkes Birth of Swing 1935-45 while URCD266 is The Rise of the plus a 1985 recording with Claude Luter featuring the Bad Penny Blues rhythm section, Parker, Bray & Greig. Crooner 1945-1975 Just Jazz Magazine wrote of URCD249: “The tunes are played flawlessly. Dalby has trained his musicians well! On all counts, this CD delivers.”

LONNIE DONEGAN COLLECTION KID ORY COLLECTION URCD015 3 CD SET £33 URCD200 URCD212 URCD226 URCD021 4 CD SET £44 URCD200 This unique album is a tribute to the flair, drive URCD259 URCD262D URCD236 URCD241 and professionalism that was Lonnie Donegan. He tells his 3 single CDs and 1 double from this trombone legend. life story in his own words and music in a ‘live’ recording URCD259 is the first CD release of The Original Jazz from made in 1994 at the 100 Club, Oxford Street. URCD212 1957. URCD262D is a double which has tracks from is a superb ‘live’ recording of Lonnie’s last tour recorded in Storyville Nights, Dixieland Marching Songs & Kid Ory plays October 2002 – Lonnie was on excellent form on what WC Handy. URCD236 has the popular Verve album The Kid was to be his last tour. Plus bonus tracks from his son From New Orleans together with a guest appearance at Peter who played piano on the Last Tour. URCD226 a superb album of Lonnie Donegan Newport Jazz Festival. URCD241 has 2 albums Song of the from the late 60s featuring his much loved hit single My Old Man’s A Dustman plus some Wayfarer and tracks from Dance with Kid Ory, or Just Listen. hidden treasures. All of Donegan is presented here – music hall, fun, electric skiffle, blues and ballads and a lot of laughs.

THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN UPBEAT PORTRAIT SERIES

URCD022 3 CD SET £33 URCD016 SET 1 4 CDs £44 URCD203 URCD208 URCD220 URCD176 URCD187 URCD215 URCD231 The four CDs in this collection feature A Portrait of Papa URCD203 is Tea for Eight – our very first release and it Mutt Carey – A New Orleans Master, A Portrait of Kid Ory includes Tea for Two and Ukulele Lady. URCD208 is 33 – The Greatest Slideman Ever Born, A Portrait of Muggsy Not Out and tunes include Chilli Bom Bom and Happy Spanier A – Z and A Portrait of Jelly Roll Morton – Oh, Mr Feet. URCD220 is The Writing on the Wall with 17 tracks Jelly! Full details of each CD on our website. including Dog Bottom and Mornington Crescent.

UPBEAT PORTRAIT SERIES CHRIS BARBER AT THE BBC – featuring OTTILIE PATTERSON – Wireless Days URCD017 SET 2 4 CDs £44 URCD023 2 CDs £19.99 URCD225 URCD195 URCD238 URCD197 This 4 CD collection features A Portrait of Johnny Dodds URCD146 URCD177 – King of the Blues Clarinet, A Portrait of Sidney Bechet in Paris 1937 – 1952, A Portrait of Louis Jordan – The Birth Two collections of BBC broadcast material from Chris of Rhythm & Blues and A Portrait of George Lewis from Barber’s Jazz Band. Volume 1 has broadcasts dating from Burgundy Street to Berlin. Full details of each CD on our 1961 – 1962 while Volume 2 comprises broadcasts from website. 1961 – 1963. Both CDs feature Ottilie Patterson.

UPBEAT PORTRAIT SERIES LOUIS ARMSTRONG

URCD18 SET 3 4 CDs £44 URCD024 2 CD SET £19.99

URCD242 URCD235 URCD204 URCD243 URCD256 URCD204 The third selection of CDs features A Portrait of – The One and Only Queen of Hot Gospel, URCD256 Birth of A Jazz Genius is a unique collection of A Portrait of Bunk Johnson – Bunk’s Blues, A Portrait of Louis early Armstrong appearing with the likes of Bessie Smith, Armstrong – Birth of the All Stars and A Portrait of Louis Fletcher Henderson, Sidney Bechet and Clarence Williams. Prima – Sing Sing Sing. As always there are full details on URCD204 is Birth of the All Stars, Armstrong’s touring band. our website. 21 tracks over 75 minutes.

KEN COLYER at the Royal Festival Hall 1954 – The Lost Tapes KEN COLYER Studio 51 Sessions 1972 Volumes 1 & 2

URCD019 2 CD SET £19.99 URCD025 2 CD SET £19.99

URCD198 & URCD205 URCD217 URCD222 URCD198 sees Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen and Skiffle Group in The Ken Colyer Allstars at Studio 51 1972. Volume 1 has concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1954 featuring Chris sessions from January and February and runs 71 minutes Barber, Monty Sunshine and Lonnie Donegan. There are while Volume 2 has sessions from April and May running more tracks from this concert on URCD205 plus a bonus a total of 74 minutes. Great line-up including Sammy of 8 great tracks from the Colston Hall 1956 featuring Ian Rimington with some unusual tracks not easily found on Wheeler and Mac Duncan. other albums.

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THE CHRIS BARBER BIG BAND – KEN COLYER on VIDEO – In Concert on The Isle of Wight Rare footage from the Vaults

URDVD251 1 DVD £15.99 URDVD267 £15.99

A concert to celebrate Chris Barber’s 60th Rare footage of this iconic British bandleader. Although Anniversary in the business sees Chris with shot as an amateur video, and despite its resulting Mike Henry, Pete Rudeforth, Mike Snelling, DVD graininess and variable focus, the film is historically DVD Richard Exall, Zoltan Safi, John Service and important and a wonderful live reminder of happy days of John Slaughter. 18 songs including Bourbon jazzing! Personnel include Ray Foxley and Colin Bowden. A Street Parade, Rent Party Blues, Petite popular favourite among Colyer fans! Fleur, Oh! When The Saints Go Marching In and many more. This 90 minute DVD is region free and PAL format. Colyer from the Archives featuring CHRIS BARBER at the BBC with JOE Sammy Rimington HARRIOTT and OTTILIE PATTERSON URCD265 1 CD £12.99

URCD158 1 CD £12.99 This live Thames riverboat session dates from the early 70s. Ken had recently closed his Studio 51 Club and Recorded at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in given up leading a regular band, but was offered a regular 1963 the classic line – up also includes Pat Halcox weekly slot at the 100 Club in Oxford Street and so the & Ian Wheeler. Ian Armit and Bobby Breen are All Stars were born. The stars on this recording are Sammy also guesting with the band and the introductions Rimington, Mike Pointon, Bill Stotesbury, Annie Hawkins are by Humphrey Lyttelton. 16 tracks. and Colin Bowden. 72 glorious minutes of previously unreleased material!

KEN COLYER – Christmas with Colyer THE PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA – The Christmas Album

URCD180 1 CD £12.99 PR0010 1 CD £12.99 These unique performances were recorded in a Dusseldorf Bierkeller in 1955 and feature Ken with Mac Duncan, Ian Wheeler and Diz Disley. The CD was voted in the top ten albums of 2002 by readers Give yourself a treat with this wonderful festive CD. 12 great of Jazz Review. Tracks include Ice Cream, Didn’t He Ramble, Christmas tracks recorded in 2011 and played as only the Maryland, My Maryland, Get Happy and many more. Pasadena Roof Orchestra knows how! Songs include White Christmas,Winter Wonderland, The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot, It’s Winter Again and White Christmas.

HOT STUFF! Early Jazz Revisited THE PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA

URCD264 1 CD £12.99 THE PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA – Fifteen Years On Recorded on March 21st 1992 at the House of Solberg, URCD227 1 CD £12.99 Banstead, Surrey, this CD features some of the hottest names in jazz – Dick Charlesworth on clarinet & saxes, Originally recorded in 1984 to mark 15 glorious years of Mike Pointon trombone & vocals, Chez Chesterman cornet the orchestra, this CD was the first on the PRO’s own label. & vocals, Pat Hawes piano, Jim Forey banjo & guitar, John So sit back and enjoy these wonderful arrangements all Rodber bass and Rex Bennett drums. There are 15 tracks over again, including Varsity Drag, Yes Yes (My Baby Said lasting a total of 61+ minutes of hot jazz. This new release yes), Solitude and a 1920s medley. is to celebrate the reforming of the band in May 2015.

THE PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA NEW ORLEANS REBORN! – Live in London

JCCD7000 2 CDs £14.99 Pr0DVD040 1DVD £15.99 A 2 CD celebration of the Great Musicians of New Orleans The Pasadena Roof Orchestra celebrated its 40th released to keep the music alive after Hurricane Katrina. Anniversary with a sell out concert at London’s Cadogan DVD The set features all the great names on Jazz Crusade Hall on 20th May 2010. This high quality DVD is of the including Sammy Rimington, Wilbur deParis, Brian complete show featuring Duncan Galloway and guests. Carrick, Big Bill Bissonnette, Louis Nelson, Kid Sheik, Louis Runs over 2 hours. Armstrong, Kid Thomas, Tuba Fats & many more.

THE PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA Special Offer VINTAGE CHILDREN’S FAVOURITES 1926 – 1959 PRo008 PRO009 £12.99 each OR PRO100 2 CDs FOR £22 RTS4162 2 CDs £14.99 PRO008 Roots of Swing Listening to ‘Children’s Favourites’ was a Saturday morning dates from 2007 and ritual for millions in those far off days of innocence, and – features Duncan Galloway’s you never know – perhaps even today’s youngsters might inimitable vocals. 18 tracks still be as entranced as their parents and grandparents were over 61.10 minutes. PRO009 by this remarkable collection of 48 vintage classics that Licensed to Swing was have stood the test of time . All from the original artists and recorded in 2011 and has 16 transcribed from cherished 78s. For children of all ages – and tracks and a running time of the perfect stocking filler. 50.24 minutes.

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