1 It’s been another exciting year here at Upbeat – Upbeat Jazz sales are still increasing – we’re so glad you like our releases – and sales of the American jazz label Jazz Crusade are also increasing,Newsletter and so we now2015 have embarked on a round of redesigns and reprints on many of the titles. You will find a feature page of new releases and redesigns on the back cover of 2018 this Newsletter. We have lots of new releases and special offers across the labels which we are sure you will enjoy! Here’s to 2018 – keep jazzin’! Liz Biddle

NEW! NEW ORLEANS – Original Soundtrack and Out-takes from the 1947 Cult Movie featuring Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, Mutt Carey and Zutty Singleton URCD276 1 CD £12.99 A much anticipated re-release of a long out of print title. It was a fabulous idea which in true Hollywood fashion ended up a fiasco! However, there remains the music which, unlike the film, is just plain wonderful! The list of artists here is an A-Z of jazz royalty and there are 29 great tracks for you to enjoy. So close your eyes and be transported back to 1947 and the birth of jazz in New Orleans!

NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! THE ORIGINAL CRANE RIVER SAMMY RIMINGTON – A LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ALL KEN COLYER – Colyer at JAZZ BAND with KEN COLYER: Snapshot of his American STARS – Live in Vancouver 1951 Wimbledon Reunited URCD272 1 CD £12.99 Recordings 1995-1999 URCD277 1 CD £12.99 URCD275 1 CD £12.99 URCD274 1 CD £12.99 The Crane River Jazz Band is one of the Featuring Jack Teagarden and Earl Ken Colyer includes several numbers most revered jazz bands of the 20th This selection of recordings by Hines, this CD pre dates the two Jack he had used over the years but Century. There is very little material Sammy from the 1990s is a good Teagarden/Earl Hines CDs from the as ever, he always manages to of this amazing band so Upbeat is example of his special talent for Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1957 produce fresh versions of well- delighted to issue this. In 1972 the combining a repertoire of standards by six years and should really be known standards. Mike Pointon Cranes re-formed and their first London with other numbers that are rarely considered the fore-runner to these has compiled this CD from a live appearance was at the 100 Club in used as jazz vehicles. It follows the 2 CDs (available on the Upbeat Jazz recording from December 20th Oxford Street where this CD was eclectic New Orleans tradition label – URCD258 and URCD273). 1975 at a great Christmas party recorded. The result was sheer joyousness which has always been the approach This is the only known recording of in Wimbledon. Interesting and and almost relaxed telepathic teamwork. taken by musicians from the Cozy Cole in concert with this band. refreshing line-up: Ken Colyer cornet, All the players are world renowned in Crescent City. Tracks from 4 sessions This is a live show that ‘showcases’ vocals, Roger Bird clarinet, Mike their own right. Ken Colyer trumpet, recorded between 1995 and 1999 what many believe to be Louis Sherbourne trombone, Ray Smith cornet, vocal, Sonny Morris trumpet, are featured here, using musicians Armstrong’s best post Hot 5 and Hot piano, Bill Stotesbury banjo, Annie vocal, Monty Sunshine clarinet, Pat Sammy has been associated with 7 bands. Hawkins string bass, Colin Bowden Hawes piano, John R T Davies trombone, over the years in different bands. drums. 72 minutes of great jazz as alto sax, Ben Marshall piano, Julian only Colyer can play - Mike Pointon Davies string bass, Colin Bowden drums. has deliberately chosen long versions of tunes played live for ultimate enjoyment.

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LACDBK01 BOOK! A LONG WAY LACD350 KEN COLYER – Colyer Plays at Colyer’s Pleasure FROM PASADENA 1 BOOK £15.99 1 CD £12.99 The remarkable history of the Temperance Seven in an A re-issue of the long deleted LACD34 plus one extra track. autobiographical fragment by Professor Brian Innes PDSA. It features the band in 1962 and is the only commercially The Temperance Seven (all nine of them) were unique issued full album recorded by this line-up. It features a very among popular acts. Graduates of the higher seat of young Sammy Rimington on clarinet alongside Geoff Cole learning (London University, Royal College of Arts, Royal on trombone in the frontline. Newcomer Pete Ridge on Academy of Music) they were consummate musicians, drums joins the two longest serving Jazzmen, Ron Ward quirky humourists and committed individuals. This is and John Bastable. For many this is regarded as the best their story. all round album the band ever made in terms of recorded sound and programme. The original LP has six tracks added to it which come from a session recorded for the Michael LACD351 CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND - BARBER IN Winner directed film ‘West Eleven’. NEW! DETROIT 1959 1 CD £12.99 The only recordings of the band made during their historic LACD349 Remembering IAN WHEELER 2 CDs £12.99 first American tour in 1959. The recordings were pirated and issued in the USA under the name of ‘The All American One of our finest reed players Ian Wheeler came to Jazz Band’. Never previously released in their entirety under prominence in Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen when he replaced the band’s own name. There are six bonus tracks from the Acker Bilk in 1955. He left Ken Colyer and formed the Sims- same period including a duet by Ottilie and Chris which Wheeler Vintage Jazz Band in 1959 along with trumpeter has never been released anywhere before. The CD features Ken Sims. It was a short stay before he got the call from the usual Barber band favourites: Ottilie Patterson, Monty Chris Barber to join his band replacing Monty Sunshine. Ian Sunshine, Pat Halcox and, of course, Chris Barber himself. NEW! would spend 27 years in the Barber band playing clarinet, alto sax, soprano sax and harmonica. This tribute to a top- notch player sees Ian in a variety of bands in the company of Chris Barber, Ken Colyer, Sammy Rimington, Rod Mason, NEW! LACD352 HUMPHREY LYTTELTON – DUSTING OFF THE Ken Sims, Fessor Lindgreen and Dick Wellstood. Many ARCHIVES 1 CD £12.99 previously unissued tracks. *Double CD for the price of one. NEW! In 1948 Humphrey Lyttelton formed his first full-time band and rapidly became the premier Traditional Jazz band LACD354 The JAKE LEG JUG BAND – Break A Leg 1 CD £12.99 in the UK. Several of the musicians who would become significant players later had formed bands, but until the Chris The third album by the JLJB on the LAKE label. A new Barber Jazz Band came into being in 1954 Humph had no line-up with three new members, but what has not serious rivals. The band made early recordings on the small changed is the repertoire. As before the material is independent specialist Tempo and Esquire labels and in 1949 wide-ranging mixing Jazz, Blues, Gospel, and Folk songs landed a contract with Parlophone. In 1950 their producer – all the way from the Mississippi Sheiks to the Carter would be none other than George Martin! Throughout the Family. They have gained an enviable reputation as a early 50s the band’s recorded output was prolific and the lively, feel-good band both looking and sounding the recordings on this CD are very rare, coming from broadcasts, private recordings, concerts part. They are not slavish copiers, but stamp their own and alternative takes. Most have never been issued before and some of the tunes are the personality on all the material. only versions the band ever recorded. NEW!

LACD353 REMEMBERING BEN COHEN VOLUME 2 1 CD £12.99 LACD348 AT A TANGENT VOLUME 8 – THE NEW ORLEANS Ben Cohen spent his whole career in amateur or semi- STYLE BANDS 1 CD £12.99 professional bands, but was widely regarded as one of the best exponents of the early Louis Armstrong style of playing. Volume 8 in this popular series looks at the development He stuck doggedly to the cornet and was well-known for his of the New Orleans style bands in the UK between the late blistering, but always tasteful, thoughtful solos and firm lead. 1940s and 1963. The early pioneers led by Ken Colyer laid Volume 2 sees Ben with The Sonny Dee All-Stars - a Chicago- the foundations based on the revival in the USA around style band featuring some top notch players - which has never Bunk Johnson and George Lewis. After a while a subset been issued on CD. On Volume 1 (LACD334 – also £12.99) started to develop with younger musicians looking at what he is with Brian White’s Magna Jazz Band on previously was happening in New Orleans at the time. This CD charts unreleased tracks from 1979, 1984 and 1987. NEW! this development with many rare and previously unissued SPECIAL OFFER! Buy Volumes 1 & 2 together LACD504 for £22. tracks. You will find the full listing of CDs in this series is in the box below. FIRST IN THE SERIES! REMEMBERING PAT HALCOX LACD338 2 CDs £12.99 BRITISH TRADITIONAL JAZZ AT A TANGENT SERIES When Pat Halcox joined Chris Barber’s Jazz Band in the early 1950s it started a remarkable career and produced the All Single CDs @ £12.99 each OR LACD700 buy all 7 longest serving partnership in Jazz as Pat held the trumpet for £75 OR LACD701 Volumes 1-4 for £44 LACD702 chair until 2008. CD 1 has Pat playing with Chris Barber’s Volumes 5-7 for £33 band, with a few tracks from each decade with guests Alex Welsh and Kenny Ball. CD 2 has Pat guesting with other LACD316 At A Tangent Volume 1 – Breaking the Mould – bands - including Humph’s and Alex Welsh’s - playing with Christie Brothers Stompers, Kenny Baker’s Half Dozen, Pat American visitors Art Hodes and Don Ewell & fronting his Hawes, Dave Berry, Tony Coe & more. own All Stars. None of the tracks have been released before. LACD317 At A Tangent Volume 2 – Trad Style – Diz Disley, Bruce Turner, Alex Korner, The Temperance Seven, George Chisholm & more. LACD318 At A Tangent Volume 3 – Out of the Limelight – Graham Stewart, Bobby MIKE DANIELS - Mike on Mike Mickleburgh’s Bobcats, Erik Silk’s Southern Jazzband & more. LACD322 1 CD £12.99 LACD327 At A Tangent Volume 4 – The Territory Bands – Bands that operated in the regions outside London including The Gateway Jazz Band and Archie Semple’s Capitol Jazzmen. Playing classic jazz from the Armstrong/Oliver/Morton LACD328 At A Tangent Volume 5 – The Second Line – Bands that secured major record period, the band made one LP and one single for major deals such as Mike Cotton, Gerry Brown, Avon Cities Jazz Band and more labels. Both are included here plus six ‘vintage’ tracks LACD335 At A Tangent Volume 6 – The Classic Style Bands –followers of Clarence from the band’s early period 1949/50. Tracks include Williams and King Oliver path rather than New Orleans or Trad including Mike Daniels and Hiawatha Rag, Steamboat Stomp, Cushion Foot Stomp, Steve Lane. Struggle Buggy, Belmont Strut and many more. LACD341 At A Tangent Volume 7 – Chicago-Dixieland Style Bands – Mickelburgh, Gold, Semple & more

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LACD300 British Traditional Jazz – A Potted History LACD312 CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ & BLUES BAND – 3 CDs £12.99 Clearing the Air in Bern ‘92 2 CDs £12.99

LAKE’s fastest selling title ever! A triple CD set for the One of the strongest line-ups ever of the Chris Barber band price of one! Of the 73 tracks many are previously playing at the top of its game at this concert recorded in unissued or extremely rare. The narrative in a 40 page 1992. The CDs have lots of atmosphere, some excellent booklet puts the bands and the music into perspective. musicianship and was obviously enjoyed by both the band Its popularity gave birth to the At A Tangent Series – the and the audience. latest of these is on page 2, and all of the titles are still available.

LACD296 OTTILIE PATTERSON – Blues Book and Beyond 1 CD £12.99 LACD314 CHRIS BARBER AND THE CLARINET KINGS - The original album Blues Book & Beyond is classic 2 CDs £12.99 blues, R ‘n’ B material and a couple of her original Over the years Chris Barber’s Band has played host to compositions, enhanced with previously unreleased numerous visiting American Jazz and Blues musicians. tracks - 4 from Ottilie Swings the Irish EP - and 3 which The CD set contains recordings of the band with three had limited release. 23 tracks including Bad Spell Blues legendary clarinet players: Edmond Hall, Albert Nicholas and Kansas City Blues. and Joe Darensbourg. Many of the recordings are rare and have never been released before on LP or CD. The set also includes recordings of Chris Barber’s American Jazz Band which featured trumpeter, Sidney De Paris, alongside Edmond Hall. LACD244 OTTILIE PATTERSON – That Patterson Girl 1 CD £12.99 LACD319 CHRIS BARBER – Goin’ to Town in Carlisle 1994 This is one of Lake’s best selling CDs in the history of 2 CDs £12.99 the label! This CD contains 23 tracks in all, including 11 previously unreleased songs or versions of songs. Ottilie A previously unissued recording of Chris Barber’s 1994 Patterson first appeared with the band in 1955 and for concert tour featuring his original 1954 band line-up the next 20 years she remained with the Barber band which included Monty Sunshine, a Skiffle set with the before retiring through ill health. In that time she became inimitable Lonnie Donegan. The second CD features Britain’s best loved Trad Jazz singer - and is still held in the 1994 line-up of Chris Barber’s Jazz and Blues band great affection today - moving her style beyond the with John Crocker, Ian Wheeler, John Slaughter, Johnny Vaudeville Blues to encompass Gospel and RB. McCallum, Vic Pitt and Russell Gilbrook. The concert was scheduled to be recorded and so the sound is excellent.

LACD209 KEN COLYER - New Orleans to London & Back to the Delta 1953-54 1 CD £12.99 LACD323 CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND – Classic Concerts Classic Recordings from 1953 and 1954 featuring Chris Revisited 1 CD £12.99 Barber, Monty Sunshine, Lonnie Donegan and Acker Bilk. It was originally issued as LACD14 and this re-issue This is a reissue of LACD210 with some extra tracks, includes the first UK issue of rare alternate ‘Delta’ sides. previously unissued, which were discovered recently. The concerts are Berlin 1959, Copenhagen 1960 and London (Palladium) 1961. All very much sought after with the Copenhagen concert only previously appearing on CD on LACD210. It’s the usual team of Ottilie Patterson, Monty Sunshine, Pat Halcox et al. The London concert sees the introduction of Ian Wheeler and features his superb duet LACD158 THE GREAT REVIVAL Volume 5 - Traditional Jazz with Joe Harriot on ‘S Wonderful’. Great British Jazz. 1949-1957 1 CD £12.99 The final volume in this popular series features Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen, Mr Acker Bilk & his Paramount Jazz Band, LACD337 CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ & BLUES BAND – The Terry Lightfoot and his Jazzmen, Chris Barber’s New Orleans Class of ‘78 1 CD £12.99 Jazz Band and George Melly. 19 terrific tracks in total. The first four titles in the series – all 1 CD @ £12.99 each This collection was one of the classic issues by the Barber – or LACD504 buy all four for £44 band in 1978 and had some new personnel: Vic Pitt came Volume 1 LACD134 Cy Laurie, Christie Brothers, Ken Colyer, in on bass, Roger Hill had replaced John Slaughter and Bob Mickelburgh, Beryl Bryden & more. Pete York came in on drums. The most significant change Volume 2 LACD135 Acker Bilk, Crane River JB, though was the addition of a second reed in the front line. Bob Mickelburgh, Brian Wooley & Mick Gill This role was undertaken by Sammy Rimington, who had Volume 3 LACD136 Sandy Brown, Mike Daniels, Delta Jazzmen, George Chisholm been largely regarded as a strict New Orleans style player & Kenny Ball but demonstrates here that he had much more wide Volume 4 LACD137 Chris Barber, Merseysippi Jazzband, Lew Jowet & ranging experience and ability. It’s a typical varied Chris The Second City Jazzmen Barber set, well recorded in concert.

LACD267 KEN COLYER 1957-58 LONESOME ROAD LACD346 CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND WITH OTTILIE 2 CDS £12.99 PATTERSON - Barber Back In Berlin 1960 2 CDS £12.99 Barber In Berlin is one of the most popular albums in A perennial favourite collection of significant recordings Chris Barber’s discography (see ‘Classic Concerts Revisited’ made by Ken Colyer in the years 1957 and 1958. Includes LACD323). It was recorded at the Deutschlandhalle in the rare Hamburg concert by the Jazzmen and Skiffle Berlin in 1959 in front of a capacity crowd of 12,000. Group, the EP They All Played Ragtime, the equally rare ‘live’ Almost exactly a year later the band was back. No-one can set which was re-recorded as Colyer Plays Standards and remember the concert being recorded, but in 2015 a set the only recording of the Omega Brass Band ever issued. of tapes appeared and this is the resulting CD. The band is on cracking form with solo turns from all the favourites, Monty Sunshine, Pat Halcox, the leader himself and, of course, Ottilie Patterson.

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504CD129 NEW ORLEANS 1961 – 1964 1 CD £12.99 504CD23 KEN COLYER – The Unknown New Orleans Sessions 1952 – 1953 1 CD £12.99 All the music on this disc was recorded in New Orleans for the Music of New Orleans label. This is the first release 14 previously unreleased tracks of Ken Colyer with on CD of 2 LPS originally on the 77 Label. Bands featured Raymond Burke which had laid forgotten for thirty here are Kid Howard’s Band, Emile Barnes’ New Orleans years! Plus a bonus of 5 tracks previously on NOLA Four, Peter Bocage and his Creole Serenaders, Kid Sheik’s records, included for completeness, so the 19 New Swingsters, Kid Thomas’ Dixieland Band, The Mighty Four, Orleans sessions from 1952 and 1953 appear together John Henry McNeil’s Crescent City Crystals, Kid Sheik’s here for the first time. Band members include Ken Band, Peter Bocage Quartet and DeDe Pierce’s New Colyer, Raymond Burke, Dick Allen, Bill Huntingdon, Dr Orleans Band. 20 tracks in total. NEW! Edmund Souchon, Harald Katz Maestri, Jack Delaney.....

504CD45 New Orleans Jazz & Gospel – The Larry Borenstein Collection Volume 16 1 CD £12.99 504CD54 OSCAR ‘PAPA’ CELESTIN and his Original Tuxedo Jazz Band 1949 -1953 1 CD £12.99 This is the final release from Larry Borenstein’s Collection - Volume 16. The CD features a generous 22 tracks by artists Oscar ‘Papa’ Celestin’s historic recordings, made in the such as Kid Thomas Valentine and His Dixieland Band, 1920s for Okeh and Columbia, have assured his star Mother Mary Margaret Parker, Sister Donna Alexander and place in the New Orleans firmament. All the titles Sister Adele Williams. All recorded by Borenstein at his on this compilation appear here for the first time on Associated Artists Studio in New Orleans between 1958 CD. They were recorded between 1949 and 1953 at and 1961. Total playing time for the CD is a generous 71 venues across New Orleans. Oscar ‘Papa’ Celestin with minutes and 25 seconds. Bill Matthews, Alphonse Picou, Octave Crosby, Richard NEW! Alex string bass, Christopher Happy Goldston drums, plus sessions with Eddie Pierson, Louis Barbarin, Joseph Thomas and others. 504CD73 ALBERT WALTERS NEW ORLEANS BAND 1 CD £12.99

504CD71 THE GEORGE LEWIS RAGTIME BAND – Live in Recorded in New Orleans in September 1973, this little Boston, Mass 1963 1 CD £12.99 rarity is a gem! Personnel here are Albert ‘Fernandez’ Walters cornet, Jim Robinson trombone, Albert Burbank clarinet and vocals, James ‘Sing’ Miller piano and vocals, Narvin Kimball The series of recordings made by the Lewis band in banjo, Chester Zardis string bsss and Dave Oxley drums and their prime in the ‘50s has long been the inspiration to a vocals. generation of musicians. This unexpected discovery finds them still on peak form at the start of the following decade. The magic is still very much in evidence with this seven- piece line-up. The players are George Lewis clarinet, Avery NEW! ‘Kid’ Howard trumpet and vocal, Jim Robinson trombone, Charlie Hamilton piano, Emanuel Sayles banjo and vocal, Alcide ‘Slow Drag’ Pavageau bass & Joe Watkins drums and vocal. The CD runs 53m 26s. 504CDS8 WENDELL EUGENE’S NEW ORLEANS BAND – WEST INDIES BLUES 1 CD £12.99 504CD97 A NEW ORLEANS ANTHOLOGY 1963 -1968 Wendell Eugene’s New Orleans Band was oft heard at Preservation Hall in New Orleans in the 1970s. Their 1 CD £12.99 style was fresh and exciting and it was decided to record the band for posterity in 1978. This CD is the result This popular title is part of the Lord Richards New Orleans of the session at Ultrasonic Studios on Washington Sessions and features some of the greats of NO jazz in Avenue. Recorded in New Orleans September 1st 1978, the 60s. 18 tracks running 66 minutes and 55 seconds. the personnel were Wendell Eugene - Albert Walters - Artists here are The Louis James Orchestra, Louis Nelson Raymond Burke - Jeanette Kimball - Emanuel Salyes - Les Serenaders, Emile Barnes Quartet, Capt Handy’s NO Four, Muscutt - Chester Zardis and Chester Jones. Enjoy! Doc Paulin & his Dixieland Band, The Kid Thomas Band, Dan Pawson’s Artisan Hall Stompers, Billie & DeDe Pierce and The Eagle Brass Band.

504CD057 LEON PRIMA and SHARKEY BONANO - Live in Concert 1948 and 1949 1 CD £12.99 504CD95 LOUIS JAMES 1967 & JOHN HANDY 1966 1 CD £12.99 6 tracks from Leon Prima recorded in New Orleans 504CD54 1 CD £12.99 in October 1948 and 14 from Sharkey Bonano and his Kings of Dixieland in concert in New Orleans in Another of the popular Lord Richards New Orleans 1949. Total time 71.50 minutes including High Society, Sessions, featuring two great New Orleans artists. The first Panama and Farewell Blues. is The Louis James Orchestra featuring Earl Humphrey and Andrew Morgan recorded in New Orleans in 1967. The second features Capt. John Handy’s New Orleans Four and was recorded in Egham, England in 1966, including four previously unreleased tracks from the band..

504CD52 GEORGE LEWIS WITH KEN COLYER 504CDS130 BRIAN CARRICK & HIS NEW ORLEANS BAND In Germany 1959 1 CD £12.99 - Dew Drop Revisited 1 CD £12.99

George Lewis with the classic Colyer line-up of Mac Recorded in April 2015 at the legendary Dew Drop Social Duncan, Ray Foxley, Ian Wheeler, John Bastable, Ron Ward and Dance Hall in Mandeville, Louisiana on the northern & Colin Bowden. Tunes include The Old Rugged Cross, Take shore of Lake Ponchatrain. It was a stormy day and the This Hammer, Red Wing and Willie the Weeper. band and recording team only just made it to the venue! But the trip was well worth it as you will hear! 18 tracks with Brian Carrick and his clarinet leading an ace team of New Orleans musicians.

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JSP4243 HENRY ‘RED’ ALLEN & His New York Orchestra JASMCD2563 WINGY MANONE – Wingy Sings, Wingy 1929 -1930 2 CDs £15.99 Plays 1 CD £12.99

A dream reissue - all the Henry Allen New York Orchestra’s Physical disability is no bar to musicianship – as Wingy Victor recordings made between 1929 and 1930, as well Manone here testifies - playing the trumpet with only one as those featuring the Spivey Sisters. Also here are four arm - inconvenient, but not impossible. This compilation titles by the Luis Russell Orchestra, comprising largely the is of the ‘happy’ songs Wingy recorded at the height of his same musicians. The sidemen were handpicked by Allen recording success with Isle Of Capri. If not all the lyrics were and Russell and are regarded as among the finest of their actually happy in content, then Manone made sure that the era. Long before Ellington and Basie, this is where swing overall effect was the desired one at the time of Depression really started - a lifting of spirits. Everything received the unique Manone treatment, even unbelievably On The Good Ship Lollipop, which owed nothing to Shirley Temple! NEW!

JSP77201 HARLEM HAMFATS – Masters of Jazz & Blues 1936 -1944 4 CDs £17.99 JASCD440 BOB SCOBEY – Frisco Jazz 1948 -1955 2 CDs £14.99 The Hamfats combined blues and popular material. Trumpeter Herb Morand and clarinettist Odell Rand joined This set provides all of the Scobey band recordings from Joe and Charlie McCoy and Horace Malcolm on piano to 1948 to July 1955, including the first issues from Scobey’s play music both cultivated and down home. The result? own Ragtime Records which have never previously been available on CD. The set also includes sessions with the Goodtime music, played with the skill and panache of artists Darnell Howard and Albert Nicholas, featuring experienced session men. Irresistible. Remastered with a popular tunes like Clarinet Marmalade and the famous full discography. composition of St. Louis Blues which occurs twice as an instrumental. The recordings also feature Clancy Hayes and there are 51 tracks in total over 2 CDs. IT’S BACK!

JSP77173 SKIFFLE FROM BRITAIN TO BROADWAY – BCD252 BOB WALLIS & his Storyville Jazzmen 1957 including Donegan & Colyer 4 CDs £17.99 1 CD £12.99

Skiffle was a marvellous amalgam of blues, jazz and The complete May 1957 Session by Bob Wallis and his swinging folk and some of the best & most important band, originally recorded for Doug Dobell’s 77 label. music is presented here. There are 100 tracks in total with The CD features Bob Wallis trumpet and vocals with his Storyville Jazzmen - Les Wood clarinet, John Mortimer copious notes. Artists include Lonnie Donegan, Ken Colyer’s trombone, Pete Gresham piano, Hugh Rainey banjo, Stu Skiffle Group, Chris Barber’s Skiffle Group, Vipers Skiffle Wimsey string bass and Ginger Baker, who would later Group, 2.19 Skiffle Group and many more. play in in cult rock band Cream, on drums.

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JSP962 GENNETT JAZZ REMASTERED 1922 -1930 JASCD439 TURK MURPHY – Turk’s Delight 4 CD Box Set £17.99 2 CDs £14.99

Gennett started with popular and classical music, but by Across this 2 disc set you will be able to hear at first the early 1920s it was clear that great profits lay with jazz. hand the great versatility of Turk Murphy and his superior They signed the New Orleans Rhythm Kings whose first ensemble work that made him so popular across the scene. four sides are here. Success was immediate and Gennett The first twelve tracks on this fantastic 2 CD set showcases spread their net wider with Miff Mole, King Oliver, Bix the variety of the band and include traditional tracks such Beiderbecke, Johnny Dodds, and Louis Armstrong. Fully as St Louis Blues plus tracks carried through from his Lu annotated box set. Watters days. Towards the close of the second disc we hear the band ‘live’ and in full swing at the 1955 New Orleans Jazz Festival. 39 Tracks in total across 2 discs. IT’S BACK!

JSP4209 KING OLIVER & HIS ORCHESTRA 1929 -1930 BOBBY HACKETT & his ORCHESTRA – Backstage ‘LIVE’ in 2 CDs £15.99 Milwaukee 1951 JASCD374 1 CD £12.99

Jasmine Records has issued a previously unknown 1951 Bobby Hackett nightclub session from Milwaukee that These highly acclaimed re-masters by John R T Davies belongs in any Hackett fan’s collection. The bonus is an put the JSP reissues of classic jazz at the forefront of the appearance of the great trombonist Vic Dickenson to reissue scene. This music has never sounded so full with join Hackett’s trumpet in the sextet. The tunes range so much depth. An essential set that belongs in every from Dixie standards to I’m Getting Sentimental Over jazz collection. You, with Hackett, Dickenson and clarinettist Gene Sedric on clarinet. The sound quality is superb and don’t be deceived by the 14 tracks, the CD runs a full 56 minutes! NEW!

JSP7745 MEMPHIS JUG BAND with Gus Cannon’s Jug JASCD635 BUNK JOHNSON - Bunk and the New Orleans Stompers 4 CDs £17.99 Revival 1924-1947 2 CDs £14.99

One of the finest names in jazz - here are 43 tracks of Bunk 4 CDs, 98 tracks re-mastered by John RT Davies from with various bands that he led including the Yerba Buena Memphis’ two great jug bands of the 78 RPM era! Also Jazzband, The Street Paraders, Bunk’s Brass Band, Bunk’s includes rare solo sides from Will Shade, Minnie Wallace, New Orleans Jazzband, The V-Disc Veterans and The Bunk Hattie Hart, ‘Casey Bill’ Weldon and Vol Stevens. Full Johnson Trio. discography included. A popular favourite.

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RTR4303 CLARENCE WILLIAMS - His 26 Finest 1923 - 1933 RTS4259 WILBUR de PARIS – Hot Mustard – His 38 Finest 1 CD £12.99 2 CDs £14.99

Here is the finest single disc summary of the career of Clarence Williams (1893-1965), one of the most influential Trombonist Wilbur De Paris had a long apprenticeship with figures in jazz. Clarence was a jazz phenomenon: pianist, Duke Ellington, but his golden years of the 50s, enshrined singer, arranger, composer, leader, dancer, record producer, on these two Retrospective CDs, genuinely extended the music publisher, entrepreneur and even jug blower! He boundaries of traditional jazz. For him, jazz was a living art always managed to stamp the finished result with his and as hot as mustard. This is New Orleans Jazz at its very personality, and had the ability to make a small band sound best – over two & a half hours of invigorating jazz! like a much larger one. NEW!

RTS4271 HARRY “SWEETS” EDISON – Edison Inventions RTR4125 JUGBAND SPECIALS – 1923 - 1935 1938 -1962 2 CDs £14.99 1 CD £12.99 This 2 CD centenary collection represents a microcosm of his creative journey from dashing young trumpet-major This collection is very much the cream of the crop for Jug to an artist instantly and joyfully recognizable. Edison Band Music from the 20s and 30s. There are 25 original Inventions presents arguably his 25 finest performances tracks featuring The Memphis Jug Band, Dixieland Jug from his superlative Quartet and Sextet recordings of Blowers, Clarence Williams’ Jug Band and many more. 1953-1962, together with three examples of his supreme Tracks include Boodle-am Shake, Ankle Strut, Ripe Green ability as a muted accompanist, to vocalists Sinatra, Tomatoes and The Jug Band Special. Fitzgerald and Cole. NEW!

RTS4189 LIONEL HAMPTON – Flying Home 1930 - 1949 RTR4291 McKINNEY’S COTTON PICKERS – Never Swat A 2 CDs £14.99 Fly 1928 - 1930 1 CD £12.99

This CD is the cream of “McKinney’s Cotton Pickers”. Thanks to the inspired leadership of Don Redman, and an A superb 2 CD survey of one of jazz’s all-time greats, Lionel extraordinary line-up of instrumental ‘greats’ – Benny Carter, Hampton – the virtuoso of the vibes. Lionel Hampton Coleman Hawkins, Rex Stewart, Fats Waller and others – (1908-2002) was a true giant of jazz, a flamboyant they are a delight from start to finish. Never Swat A Fly is showman who was an indefatigable bandleader, drummer, Retrospective’s selection of the 26 finest of these remarkable pianist, singer and, above all, the most famous vibraphone discs, from the first sessions in July 1928 Four Or Five Times, player in jazz history – the first to use it as other than a through the amazing 1929 band with its incredible sax NEW! novelty. These are his 48 finest tracks. section of Don Redman, Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins, to their biggest hit If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight in 1930, and the group’s final flourish You’re Driving Me Crazy. RTR4286 EDMOND HALL – Profoundly Blue - His 22 Finest RTS4294 VIC DICKENSON – Nice Work – His 34 finest 1937 - 44 1 CD £12.99 2 CDs £14.99

Retrospective presents a new double album devoted to one This profile of clarinettist Edmond Hall (1901-1967) – one of the most distinctive and innovative trombonists of them of the greatest of the New Orleans jazz giants – makes all: Vic Dickenson. The 34 tracks, all definitive examples of a superb addition to the Retrospective jazz list. Hall’s his art, give a career summary from his first recording in individual style was instantly recognizable, with its broad, 1930 (as a singer!) through to the 1961 solo, Vic’s Spot. In fast vibrato. His was hot, fiery music, full of drive and biting between Vic plays with many of the jazz greats of the 40s attack – yet he possessed a wonderful feeling for the blues. and 50s: Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Sidney De Paris, Bobby Hackett, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Condon and so on. NEW! There is a generous helping from Vic Dickenson’s immortal 1953/4 Septet sessions with Ruby Braff and Edmond Hall! RTR4203 BILLY BUTTERFIELD - What’s New? His 24 Finest 1938 - 1959 1 CD £12.99 RTR4296 THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND – Tiger Rag 1917- 1923 1 CD £12.99 A jazz treat! This CD covers 21 years of one of the all-time greats of the trumpet: Billy Butterfield. What’s New? was the title of his first big success with Bob Crosby. In addition The Original Dixieland Jazz Band was the first band to to featuring all the milestones of his career from 1938 to wax the sound of jazz, thereby providing a blueprint which 1959, this CD presents many gems from long-deleted 10 others sought to emulate. Although all of the recordings inch LPs of the 50s made when he was at the peak of his on this centenary tribute were cut in the acoustic era, the powers. George Hulme wrote in Just Jazz “Billy Butterfield technology involved was sufficiently advanced to capture was one of the finest jazz and Big Band trumpeters. The their sound, both individually and collectively. Moreover, set has excellent quality transfers. The playing time is many of the numbers which they chose to record, some of generous. I strongly recommend this CD”. which they’d composed themselves, became jazz standards. NEW! The band had a considerable influence in America and in England, which they visited in 1919 &1920. RTS4108 HUMPHREY LYTTELTON – Bad Penny Blues 1953 - 1957 2 CDs £14.99 RTR4211 EARL BOSTIC – Flamingo 1943 - 1959 1 CD £12.99 This 2-CD set offers 44 tracks, including Humph’s early recordings issued on 78s by Parlophone, and all but one This centenary tribute is the finest single CD of the of the numbers from the 1954 album recorded live at fabulously unique alto sax sound of Earl Bostic who carved the Conway Hall. Most were drawn from the existing a special niche for himself in the annals of great saxophone jazz repertoire, including some quite obscure items, such players. Always a brilliant technician, from a background of as Elephant Stomp Blues. Others had their roots within playing in, and arranging for, jazz big-bands such as Lionel the band, with allusions to clarinettist Wally Fawkes, Hampton’s, he become a household name when he took trombonist John Picard, and saxophonist Bruce Turner. popular standards and gave them a hard-driving edge, as Humph’s strong lead dominates the proceedings in these with the lilting Latin number he took for his million-selling NEW! classic recordings. signature tune, Flamingo.

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JAZZ LEGENDS SERIES VARIOUS ARTISTS - Charleston! The Definitive Album FADCD2061 THE TOMMY LADNIER COLLECTION 1924 -1930 RTR4150 1 CD £12.99 1923 -1939 2 CDs £14.99

America made Wall Street the world’s money mart, Tommy Ladnier was a trumpeter and cornettist who was Hollywood the factory of the world’s day dreams, and Tin active in the early years of jazz and recorded prolifically Pan Alley the maker of the music it danced to…the America during the 1920s and early ‘30s making some very of the 1920s that passed into the file of the world’s important recordings with the likes of Sidney Bechet, memory is not an America of throbbing steel production Fletcher Henderson, Ma Rainey and Mezz Mezzrow in the … but a kind of mass idiocy and frivolity. Europe, drained late ‘30s before his sudden and tragically early death in of life and invention after the war, first jeered and then 1939 at the age of 39. This 48-track 2-CD set draws from eagerly copied these hectic fads – cocktails, bobbed hair, the 180 sides he recorded during his career and provides a the Charleston! A generous 26 tracks in total. showcase for his often overlooked and under-estimated talent in the NEW! context of some of the best jazz of his time.

GEORGE CHISHOLM – The Gentleman of Jazz 1937-1962 FADCD2060 THE KID ORY COLLECTION 1922 -1928 RTS4261 2 CDs £14.99 2 CDs £14.99 This 47-track set focuses on the key years during the Celebrating the centenary of the great British jazz 1920s when he recorded with the likes of King Oliver’s trombonist Disc 1 (1937-1944) presents George from his Dixie Syncopators, Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, Jelly Roll first studio session with Gerry Moore in 1937, through his Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, and other notable ensembles, notable early dates with such as Benny Carter, Coleman to help produce some of the landmark recordings of the Hawkins, Fats Waller, and Danny Polo’s Swing Stars, plus era, including, of course, his own famous composition Ory’s his 1938 Jive 5 & 1944 Jive 8 recordings & some from the Creole Trombone. It’s an entertaining cross-section of the years he spent with The Squadronaires. Disc 2 (1947- music of the time, and an opportunity to hear some of the 1962) shows how his style shifted in the 50s towards best players in the early years of the genre. NEW! mainstream jazz, but he never forsook ‘Trad’, as this disc also demonstrates. FADCD2056 THE BEN POLLACK COLLECTION 1923 -1950 2 CDs £14.99 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Jazz at Town Hall DSOY955 1 CD £12.99 Ben Pollack was a drummer and bandleader whose primary contribution to jazz was not so much his own musical A historic concert which represented a glorious celebration prowess or uniqueness, but his eye for new talent, which of old-time jazz. Recorded at New York’s famed venue enabled him to assemble bands, orchestras and small Town Hall in 1946, this album features two bands’ worth groups which comprised some of the top emerging names of fabulous jazz musicians, including Sidney Bechet, Baby of the era, notably the likes of Benny Goodman the Dorsey Dodds, Miff Mole, Wild Bill Davison, Pee Wee Russell & brothers, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Harry James and Muggsy Spanier, who mixed themselves together on the Irving Fazola. 49 tracks spanning his career from the 20s NEW! night as the mood directed. to the 50s.

FADCD2050 THE HOT LIPS PAGE COLLECTION 1929 -1953 VARIOUS ARTISTS - New Orleans Masters 2 CDs £14.99 DSOY644 1 CD £12.99 Oran Hot Lips Page was a jazz trumpeter, vocalist and bandleader whose extrovert and exciting style allied to his showmanship made him a popular performer with audiences and fellow musicians alike. This 46-track Rare live performances from some of the great men of collection brings together recordings with a wide New Orleans Jazz – Sidney Bechet, Bunk Johnson, Kid Ory, selection of ensembles, both as sideman and leader. It Jelly Roll Morton and The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. features performances by some of the top names in jazz Recordings date from 1940-1948. including Artie Shaw, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Albert Ammons, Big Joe Turner, Eddie Condon, Sidney Bechet NEW! and many more.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOT FIVES & SEVENS – West End Blues FADCD4025 THE EDDIE CONDON COLLECTION RTR4129 1 CD £12.99 1927-1961 2 CDs £14.99

Eddie Condon was a guitarist, banjo player and bandleader This collection was compiled by Ray Crick, with final in the ‘Chicago school’ of early jazz who successfully restoration and remastering by Alan Bunting. Les Paul plays negotiated the musical vagaries of swing, big band and electric guitar on all tracks, and the CD was recorded in bebop until he was able to ride the wave of the Dixieland Les Paul’s home studio (from late 1947). It contains 26 revival during the 1950s. This 2 CD collection encompasses of his finest tracks from 1925-1928 with his Hot Fives a fascinating range of styles and repertoire. NEW! and Sevens. Artists here include Johnny Dodds, Earl Hines, Lonnie Johnson, Kid Ory and Don Redman. OTHER POPULAR TITLES IN THIS SERIES:

BOBBY HACKETT – More Ingredients ALL 2 CDS £14.99 RTR4208 1 CD £12.99 FADCD2044 The Coleman Hawkins Collection 1927 -1956 FADCD2037 The Clarence Williams Collection 1921 -1937 FADCD2039 The Charlie Barnet Collection 1935 -1947 FADCD2047 The Muggsy Spanier Collection 1924 -1949 This collection is a unique survey of the very best of Bobby FADCD2049 The Louis Armstrong Collection 1923 -1932 Hackett, often described as the most beautiful horn in FADCD2038 The Bix Biederbecke Collection 1924 -1930 the world. Comparing top trumpeters, Louis Armstrong FADCD2057 The Mezz Merrow Collection 1928 -1955 once declared that Bobby Hackett (1915-1976) had more ingredients. This generous Retrospective of the 27 ALL 1 CD £12.99 finest tracks from his vintage years of 1938 to 1960 is an unrivalled demonstration of all those glorious ‘ingredients, FABCD353 The Roy Eldridge Collection 1935 -1945 including six tracks with Jack Teagarden. FABCD358 The Lester Young Collection 1936 -1947 FABCD351 The Benny Carter Collection 1929 -1947

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JCCD7013 A JAZZ GUMBO in two volumes £22 JCCD 7014 SPECIAL OFFER! WILBUR De PARIS At Jimmy Ryan’s in 3 Volumes 3 CDs £33 SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7013 A JAZZ GUMBO in two volumes £22 Jimmy Ryan’s on 42nd Street was THE place for jazz in Or buy them individually at £12.99 each New York in the 50s. Once inside, the magic began and it Volume 1 is JCCD3004 and Volume 2 is JCCD3005 was always packed. These 3 CDs capture the excitement Gumbo is a traditional New Orleans soup containing many of great ‘live’ jazz! Sit back & enjoy! Separately, the CDs individual ingredients which mix into a spicy, well-seasoned are available at £12.99 each, and all three feature Omer and vigorous whole, and this is musically what we have here. Simeon. The recordings were made during the 1993 French Quarter JCCD3009 An Evening at Jimmy Ryan’s Jazz Festival with 18 local and visiting musicians in various JCCD3061 Another Evening at Jimmy Ryan’s combinations to produce a blend of authentic New Orleans JCCD3068 One More Evening at Jimmy Ryan’s jazz. Personnel include Milton Batiste, Sammy Rimington, Paul Boehmke, Mike Owen, Big Bill Bissonnette, Sadie Goodson-Colar, Emil Mark, Colin Bray, Tuba Fats, Emile Martyn,

Andrew Hall and Linda Young. JCCD3053 GREGG STAFFORD MEETS BRIAN CARRICK – Streets of the City 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3101 REISSUED! OMER SIMEON – The Rarest and Greatest Tracks 1928 – 1954 RARE CUTS – WELL DONE! This is a great little session recorded in October 1999. Volume 7 1 CD £12.99 Gregg Stafford’s horn and Brian Carrick’s clarinet are a match made in heaven. Both really sing here. Add to You can basically slice Omer Simeon’s life into three them a terrific rhythm section of Emil Mark at the piano, impressive sections: The JT Morton period, the Earl Hines Colin Bray and his string bass and Sven Stahlberg on big band period and the DeParis Band period. Over 90 of drums and you have a happy session of great jazz! his recordings were made with those three bands. But there were other important recordings, some under his own name, and these are the sessions that we concentrate here, including tracks with Reuben Reeves. Personnel include Earl Hines, Hayes Alvis, Wallace Bishop, Richard M. Jones, James JCCD3001 KID THOMAS VALENTINE & HIS ALGIERS P. Johnston, Pops Foster, Sammy Price and Zutty Singleton. See page 9 for the other CDs in the series. STOMPERS – Same Old Soupbone 1 CD £12.99

What you hear here will transport you back to a bright, JCCD3026 LOUIS NELSON & ALTON PURNELL with DAVE sunny day in October 1968 and to the Kid Thomas Valentine Algiers Stompers virtually at their peak. The BRENNAN’S JAZZMEN 1 CD £12.99 music is vintage Thomas with his standard line-up. As he always did he would just begin a tune and the band would Louis Nelson was one of the great New Orleans jazz pick it up. They knew what he was going to play from the trombonists and he toured the UK during 1975 with Dave first few notes. This was a cohesive session, with the whole Brennan’s Jazzmen. This CD features 10 tracks recorded at group on fine form. Swinden House in Rotherham. Meanwhile, legendary pianist Alton Purnell toured the UK with the same band in 1974, and here we feature 8 tracks, again recorded in Rotherham, but this time at the Grange Park Golf Club. Both men are on fine form - and Dave’s band ain’t bad either, featuring Dave THE EASY RIDERS JAZZ BAND – Then & Now JCCD7016 with Bugs Burgon, Brian Turnock, Terry Kennedy, Martin Boyd, Dick Douthwaite and Volume 1 Then JCCD3038 Volume 2 Now Pat O’Brian trombone. SPECIAL OFFER! £12.99 each or JCCD 3016 £22 for the two JCCD3052 REISSUED! DR MICHAEL WHITE with The Blue Clarinet Stompers – A Tribute to Then is from 1965 when Sammy Rimington first played with the Easy Riders. They were recorded by George Buck, Mr Johnny Dodds 1 CD £12.99 but not released at the time, and he generously agreed that they be included in this series, together with some Dr. Michael White plays clarinet in the style of Johnny tunes from the new band. Volume 2 is 33 years later, the Dodds, and the effect here is amazing! Accompanying him Now band dating from 1998! Band personnel are Sammy are Norman Thatcher trumpet, Emil Mark piano, Colin Rimington, Fred Vigorito, Big Bill Bissonnette, Bill Sinclair, Bray string bass and Big Bill Bissonnette on drums. The Dick Griffith, Mouldy Dick McCarthy & Art Pulver. recordings was made in 1999 at the Audiophile Studios in New Orleans. JCCD3069 LOUIS ARMSTRONG – A Sachel Full of Satch JCCD3071 REISSUED! MUGGSY SPANIER – Dixie Flyer 1 CD £12.99 1950 -1954 1 CD £12.99 Three exceptional rare sessions by Louis Armstrong. The first Great sounds recorded between 1950 and 1954 featuring is from the 30s - a marvellous airshot featuring an all-star Muggsy Spanier and his trumpet with a variety of artists band including Louis and Fats Waller together on their only including George Brunis, Harry Graves, Ralph Hutchinson live collaboration, plus Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman, Al trombone, Darnell Howard, Phil Gomez clarinet, Boomie Casey, Red Callendar and Slick Jones! The second session is Richman tenor sax , Floyd Bean, Red Richards piano, Truck from the 40s and is a live performance from the Nice Jazz Parham string bass, Billy Mure guitar, Sid Catlett, Barrett Festival by the original Armstrong All-Stars. The third session Deems & George Wettling drums. is from the 50s and was performed at New York’s famous Basin Street East Nightclub. JCCD3058 BRIAN CARRICK and his ALGIERS STOMPERS – Everywhere You Go 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3080 TUBA FATS CHOSEN FEW BRASS BAND & JAZZMEN – Street Music 1 CD £12.99 This is good time music - the sort that much happier times was played in neighbourhood bars and dance halls all over New Orleans and its satellite communities of Algiers, Gretna and Westwego. Brian Carrick plays a clarinet that Here we have nine tracks from Tuba Fats’ Chosen Few Brass once belonged to George Lewis and was given to him by Band recorded in New Orleans in November 1985 together George’s daughter. It is held together by rubber bands - but with four tracks of Tuba Fats’ Jazzmen recorded in April the tone and sound are amazing none the less! The 17 tunes 2002 in New Orleans. This is marching band music that on this collection include standards and old time favourites. brings everyone out onto the street. Something for everyone from Brian and his Algiers Stompers!

Order by phone 0843 658 0856 or online www.upbeatmailorder.co.uk JAZZ CRUSADE 9 JAZZ CRUSADE JAZZ CRUSADE BESTSELLERS JAZZ CRUSADE BEST SELLERS SPECIAL OFFER! - KID THOMAS VALENTINE at Moose Hall RARE CUTS – WELL DONE Each volume 1 CD @ £12.99 each in 2 volumes JCCD7012 £22 JCCD3109 Volume 8 Great Clarinet Players Or buy them individually at £12.99 each Volume 1 is JCCD3064 Here we have three mighty titans of the jazz clarinet and the amazing and Volume 2 is JCCD3065 legacy of tracks that they recorded during the heyday years of the 1950s. The Albert Nicholas tracks date from 1953 and were recorded in France. These two volumes of The Thomas Band at Moose Edmond Hall’s offering is from Club Hangover in California in 1954 and the George Lewis tracks date from 1956/57 in San Francisco. Hall in 1968 lay in the vaults of the Connecticut JCCD3112 Volume 9 Franz Jackson & Paul Barbarin Traditional Jazz Club for 32 years - but now they Franz Jackson has had a notable and diverse career having served can be enjoyed again and the music is as fresh as stints in the bands of Jimmie Noone, Fletcher Henderson, Roy Eldridge, the day it was recorded with Kid Thomas in splendid Albert Ammons, Earl Hines, Fats Waller and Cootie Williams! This was a shape at the age of 72! showband par excellence! The CD was recorded at The Village Gate New York City in December 1968. Paul Barbarin’s Onward Brass Band filled a very similar function in New Orleans, to play for jazz clubs and civic organisations. These sides were recorded at the Holiday Inn in Meriden Connecticut in July 1968. JCCD3116 Volume 10 Black Horns JCCD3046 CHRIS BLOUNT – Goin’ Home - A Fond Sidney de Paris is certainly one of the most under-rated trumpeters, always Farewell to Chris Blount 1 CD £12.99 in the shadow of his brother Wilbur. The session on this CD features Sidney’s show band and there is an interesting mix of songs played dixieland style. Tommy Ladnier was also a much under-rated trumpet virtuoso. His big Three sessions feature on this disc and serve as a fitting break came when he was hired to replace Lee Collins in the King Oliver band, reminder of a great clarinet player! The first was recorded in and later he played with Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow. Our third virtuoso Barnes, London in December 1995. The second at the Bude here is Lee Collins - the man who replaced Louis Armstrong in the King Oliver Festival in August 1993, and the third in Nottingham in Band at the height of the band’s fame! April 1996. So Chris is gone, but his music lives on in these recordings, including tracks that you will not have heard JCCD3119 Volume 11 – Slip Horn before! Personnel over the three recordings include Chris This volume of rare sides and out-takes features three great trombonists. The 9 Ory tracks date form the 50s and include the seldom heard I’m With Blount, Norman Thatcher, Dave Vickers, Big Bill Bissonnette, You Where You Are. The Preston Jackson tracks are earlier and date from Dave Brennan, Mick Kennedy, Ken Matthews and Malc Murphy. July 1926. Here is a man with great technique and totally off the wall SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7017 Buy Goin’ Home with JCCD3022 Chris! 2 CDs for £22 timing. DePriest Wheeler’s 5 tracks date from 1925 and these are the previously ‘lost’ and unknown Missourians tracks. Also featured on these tracks is JCCD3083 TONY PYKE & CUFF BILLETT – Can’t We Be the trumpet player Sidney de Paris. The whole Missourians band was just incredible! Friends? 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3123 Volume 12 New Orleans Obscurities Just look at the line-up of players on this album. The cream of the Tony Pyke has played with all the greats - Ken Colyer, Mac crop, and the New Orleans crop at that! Even these great names Duncan and George Lewis and in 1995 he teamed up with made some obscure recordings and these, indeed, are they. The artists his former Colyer colleague Cuff Billett to record for Jazz here including Papa Celestin, Johnny Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Jimmy Noone. Crusade. His musical tastes are wide and varied, but never JCCD3129 Volume 13 Lagniappe far away from New Orleans. Cuff Billett has a similarly wide Here are the last public recordings of Louis Armstrong playing his and varied background and has also played with the greats, horn. Includes rare recordings of Gene Krupa made for the film The Gene Krupa Story with players including George Lewis, Peanuts Hucko, Capt Handy and Kid including Red Nichols. Rare tracks of Wilbur de Paris, culled from the TV Show Those Ragtime Years, Sheik! Together, they play some great tunes on this session and finally tracks featuring some ‘down home’ dixieland jazz by New Orleans Sharkey Bonano from May 2002, recorded in England! Sit back and enjoy! from his 1950s radio shows.

JCCD3092 RARE CUTS – WELL DONE! Volume 6 CAPT JOHN JAZZ NOCTURNE SERIES – Original Airshots from Boston 1945 HANDY with ALVIN ALCORN & JIMMY ARCHEY 1 CD £12.99 All 1 CD @ £12.99 each

Capt John Handy is mainly associated with the alto sax, but JCCD3036 Volume 1 – Bunk, Bocage & Bechet he was also a fine clarinet player as these tracks will testify. This is the first in the Jazz Nocturne series and it includes a rehearsal The personnel here is unusual, but included Alvin Alcorn session with Bunk and Bechet for their radio appearances. Plus it and Placide Adams. They were recorded in New Orleans in gives us the first of the Bechet/Bocage sessions. These sessions are August 1965. The second session on this disc dates from also notable for the work of pianist Ray Parker and drummer George the beginning of 1952 and sees Jimmy Archey playing Thompson who are both excellent front row jazzmen, but who have tended to be forgotten in the presence of the great like Bunk, Sidney trombone on unissued air shots from Jimmy Ryan’s with and the inimitable Pops Foster. Henry Goodwin, Benny Waters, Dick Wellstood, Pops Foster and Tommy Benford. JCCD3039 Volume 2 – Bunk & Bechet Rare sessions recorded in Boston in the spring of 1945 which bring together Bunk Johnson’s trumpet and Sidney Bechet’s clarinet and soprano sax, with Ray Parker on piano, George Thompson on JCCD7015 SAMMY RIMINGTON & BIG BILL BISSONNETTE drums and the inimitable Pops Foster on string bass. A great if rare in Denmark 1993 Volume 1 JCCD3118 Volume 2 combination not to be missed! Both 1 CD £12.99 SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD 7002 Buy volumes 1 & 2 together for £22 Recorded live on tour in Denmark with Peter Nissen’s JCCD3040 Volume 3 – Bunk & Bechet New Orleans Jazz Band in 1993, this tour was a lot of The third in this occasional series sees Bunk Johnson trumpets joined by Sidney Bechet saxes, fun. Big Bill played alongside Peter Nissen’s band with Ray Parker piano, George Thompson drums and Pops Foster string bass. These rare recordings Sammy Rimington and it was a typical New Orleans are of high historical interest for any jazz fan, especially those who Jazz concert with many familiar tunes, plus some more consider New Orleans music one of the basic species of life! What you have here is two of the most creative personalities in jazz history unusal fare. - Bunk Johnson and Sidney Bechet - playing many seldom heard SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7015 Buy the 2 CDs songs with a rhythm section that knows it all! JCCD3041 Volume 4 – Bocage & Bechet together for £22 This CD continues the broadcasts of Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Rhythm Kings from the Savoy Cafe in Boston in the spring of 1945. Bocage, like Bechet, believed that great jazz could be made from any JCCD7007 SPECIAL OFFER! Colyer in Stockholm tune and consequently the choice of music is quite unusual! This is interesting music played by experienced musicians in the New Volumes 1 & 2 2 CDs £22 Orleans style. JCCD3042 Volume 5 – Bocage & Bechet Capt John Handy is mainly associated with the alto Rare recordings from May 1945 of Peter Bocage with Sidney Bechet sax, but he was also a fine clarinet player as these tracks recorded from the Jazz Nocturne airshots in Boston. Bechet was trying to perfect his ideal New Orleans sound, and experimented with will testify. The personnel here is unusual, but included style and imagination on these sides. This is the fifth CD in the Jazz Alvin Alcorn and Placide Adams. They were recorded in Nocturne series and contains some rare arrangements of songs not New Orleans in August 1965. The second session on this usually connected with New Orleans! A must for all collectors! disc dates from the beginning of 1952 and sees Jimmy Archey playing trombone on unissued airshots from SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7018 Buy volumes 3-5 together– 3 CDs Jimmy Ryan’s. for £33

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URCD209 Simply The Best - British Jazz from the 1950s URCD254 Cliff ‘Ukulele Ike’ Edwards - I Volume 1 Lyttelton / Gold/Barber / Donegan / Christie Did It With My Little Ukulele Brothers & Crane River Jazz Band URCD255 The London Swing URCD210 Ken Colyer Live at York Arts Centre 1972 Orchestra Vol 2 - The Elegant Thirties URCD211 The Sunny Side of Ken Colyer – Ken Colyer’s URCD257 Ken Colyer – Live Allstars 1972 Rediscovered Treasures from the URCD212 Lonnie Donegan – The Last Tour 2002 Classic Years URCD213 Simply The Best – British Jazz From the 1950s URCD258 Jack Teagarden / Earl Hines All Stars in Volume 2 Barber / Mulligan / Colyer / Lyttelton / Cy Concert Manchester Free Trade Hall 1957 Volume 1 Laurie / Sandy Brown & Freddie Randall URCD259 Kid Ory – The Original Jazz URCD214 Lonnie Donegan Jubilee URCD262D Kid Ory – Storyville Nights + Ory Plays WC Concert June 1981 Handy + Dixieland Marching Songs - 2 CDs 1st half of this iconic concert URCD263 The London Swing Orchestra Vol 3 – The Birth URCD215 A Portrait of Muggsy of Swing Spanier A – Z URCD264 Hot Stuff! – Early Jazz Revisited URCD216 The Best of the Temperance URCD265 Colyer from the Archives with Sammy Seven Rimington URCD217 Ken Colyer Studio 51 Sessions –Jan/Feb 1972 URCD266 The London Swing Orchestra Volume 4 URCD218 Lonnie Donegan Jubilee Concert June 1981 The Rise of the Crooner 2nd half of the celebrated concert URCD268D TJ Johnson in Retrospect -2 CDs URCD219 Joe Turner – The Boss of the Blues – Tracks URCD269 Terry Lightfoot in Retrospect from 1955 & 1956 URCD270 Roger Marks in Retrospect – Marks out of URCD220 The Temperance Seven – The Writing on the Wall Twenty URCD221 George Lewis- In Hi-Fi …..plus – Tracks from URCD271 Ken Colyer’s Allstars –Recently Discovered 1955 & 1956 Late Vintage Colyer ‘Live’ URCD222 Ken Colyer Studio 51 Club Sessions Vol 2 1972 URCD272 The Original Crane River Jazz Band – URCD223 Humphrey Lyttelton & his Band + The Paseo Reunited! With Ken Colyer Jazz Band ‘53-56 URCD273 Jack Teagarden / Earl Hines All Stars in URCD224 George Lewis On Stage ’56 & At Newport ‘57 Concert Volume 2 URCD225 Johnny Dodds King of the Blues Clarinet URCD274 Sammy Rimington – A Snapshot of his 1926 -1940 American recordings 1995 - 1999 URCD226 Lonnie Live! Rare Tapes from the Late 60s URCD275 Ken Colyer at Wimbledon - Live recording URCD227 The Pasadena Roof Orchestra - from 1975 Fifteen Years On URCD276 New Orleans – Original URCD230 Barber Ball and Bilk at the Soundtrack from the 1947 cult movie Jazz Band Ball - BBC recordings from URCD277 Louis Armstrong & his All 1962 Stars Live in Vancouver 1951 URCD231 Jelly Roll Morton – Oh URCD278 Roger Marks – Marks & Mister Jelly! Sparks with Pete Allen URCD232 Wilbur de Paris New New Orleans Jazz Band – 2 full LPs recorded in 1953 & 1954 UPBEAT JAZZ DVDS - £15.99 URCD233D George Lewis & Alton Purnell 3 LPs on 2 CDs URCD234 Claude Luter in England with Humphrey URDVD251 The Big Chris Barber Lyttelton 1985 Band In Concert on the Isle of URCD235 Bunk Johnson – Bunk’s Blues Tracks from Wight 2013 60th Anniversary 1942 -1947 Concert. This is the classic Chris URCD236 Kid Ory – The Kid From Barber Big Band line-up and there New Orleans URCD237D George are 18 tracks running a generous Lewis & his Orchestra – Dr Jazz/Blues 90 minutes. from the Bayou - 2 CDs URCD238 Louis Jordan – Let the Good Times Roll – The Birth of R ’n’ B URCD240D Vintage George Lewis 1954/55 - 2 CDs URDVD267 Ken Colyer on Video URCD241 Kid Ory from the 50s – – Rare Footage from the Vaults - Recorded ‘live’ in monochrome Song of the Wanderer / Dance with Kid in December 1986. Despite the Ory or Just Listen graininess and variable focus in URCD242 Sister Rosetta Tharpe – The cinema verité style, it is an historic One and Only Queen of Hot Gospel document one of Europe’s most URCD243 Prime Louis Prima - Sing Sing Sing revered and influential jazz figures. URCD244D George Lewis Ragtime Band - Jass at the Ohio Union - 2 CDs URCD249 The London Swing Orchestra Vol 1 The SPECIAL OFFER URDVD028 -buy both DVDs for £26 Roaring Twenties

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BDW8071 WEST COAST JAZZ Various Artists BDW8068 AMERICANS IN EUROPE 1 CD £12.99 1 CD £12.99

Recorded in California, this compilation includes the This important compilation includes the complete historic 1922 recordings by Kid Ory, as well as the recordings of the New York Tanz Orchestra, led by George complete recordings of Harvey Brooks’ Quality Four Carhart and featuring Danny Polo and Dave Tough, as well and Reb Spikes. Remastering is by John R.T. Davies, and as the complete Swiss recordings by Frank Guarente’s extensive liner notes are by Russ Shor and John Wilby. Georgians. These rare sides have never been reissued in their entirety before. NEW!

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Recorded in New York, Berlin, Barcelona, and Paris. A contemporary of Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson, Sam Wooding left the US in the early 20s to bring jazz to The complete recordings of Merritt Brunies and his Friars Inn Orchestra, led by the New Orleans trumpeter and his Europe and the Soviet Union. In his eight years abroad he brother, trombonist Henry Brunies. The compilation also and his star-studded orchestra were pivotal in spreading includes several other rare New Orleans tracks by Johnny and popularizing jazz all over Europe and Russia. During De Droit, Papalia and his Orchestra, Brownlee’s Orchestra of this time he paid repeated visits to recording studios in New Orleans, Scranton Sirens Orchestra, New Orleans Owls Germany, Spain and France. All of the European discs he and Ellis Stratakos and his Jung Hotel Orchestra. recorded are now mythically rare collectors’ items. His recordings, including several previously unissued alternate NEW! takes, are now available for the first time in their entirety. Extensive liner notes in the 60-page booklet are by renowned researcher Rainer Lotz. BDW8052 EDISON HOT DANCE OBSCURITIES 1 CD £12.99

BDW8002 OSCAR ‘PAPA’ CELESTIN / SAM MORGAN This release includes the hot recordings made for the 1 CD £12.99 Edison Company by Joe Herlihy’s Orchestra, the Piccadilly Players and Mal Hallett, including eight rejected masters. 17 tracks from Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra Liner notes by researcher Joe Moore put Edison’s recordings recorded in New Orleans 1925-28. These are his complete of jazz and hot dance artists into perspective and provide recordings in chronological order, including a recently new information about the featured bands. discovered alternate take of Station Calls. There is also a bonus 8 tracks from Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band recorded in New Orleans in 1927, where band members include Jim Robinson on trombone. BDW 8036 GEORGIA WASHBOARD STOMPERS 1 CD £12.99 BDW8069 The Complete Pathé Recordings of JIMMY LYTELL 1926 -1928 1 CD £12.99 The complete recordings of this washboard band which was assembled by Decca Records in 1934 and 1935. These The complete solo clarinet recordings of Jimmy Lytell, recorded exciting sides feature the fine trumpet work of Taft Jordan, between 1926 and 1928 for Pathé. Lytell, primarily a studio and are important as examples of how the washboard band musician and a mainstay of the Original Memphis Five during style evolved in the 1930s after gaining popularity in the the 1920s, is revealed here to be a fine soloist in his own mid-1920s. right. This compilation contains all known takes of these recordings, which also feature such luminaries as Eddie Lang, Dick McDonough, Frank Signorelli and Rube Bloom. The fully- illustrated booklet includes notes by collector Phil Melick, and NEW! BDW8010 Chicago Rhythm audio restoration is by Karl Machat. 1 CD £12.99

BDW8033 NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND Complete output of Al Turk’s Princess Orchestra made for 1 CD £12.99 the Olympic and Okey labels 1924-1926 plus the best of Charley Straight’s Orchestra from Paramount, Brunswick and Vocalion 1923-26, and Gene Green 1912-13. CD The complete instrumental recordings by this obscure booklet includes full details of pressings, personnel and band, recorded in 1924 and 1925. These sides are of recording dates. special interest as they include the first recordings by two important jazzmen - Sidney Arodin, who went on to participate in several classic sessions during the 1920s and 1930s, and Brad Gowans, who was a fixture of the New York Dixieland scene during the 1940s. BDW8009 Gennett Rarities 1 CD £12.99 BDW8041 FESS WILLIAMS 1926 -1930 2 CDs £15.99 Mythically rare recordings made by the Gennett Company on field trips to Birmingham. This CD includes the complete recorded output of: Syd Valentine’s Patent Leather Kids, the Triangle Harmony Boys, the Black Birds The complete Victor recordings, including all known takes, of Paradise, Frank Bunch and his Fuzzy Wuzzies, Willie as well as nine alternate takes from Williams’ Jones and his Orchestra, Horace Smith with the best sides Vocalion/Brunswick sessions not included on Retrieval by two obscure bands: Eddie Miles and his Florentine RTR 79032. Orchestra and Dunk Rendleman and the Alabamians.

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JAZZ CRUSADE GREATEST HITS PEK NEW RELEASES GEORGE LEWIS – Jammin’ In The Fifties DAVE MOORWOOD’S BIG BEAR STOMPERS - Sweet Like This JCCD3054 1 CD £12.99 PKCD408 1 CD £12.99

The Lewis band in its heyday during the 50s featuring Big Most of you will need no introduction to Dave Moorwood’s Jim Robinson, Alcide ‘Slow Drag’ Pavageau, Alton Purnell, music. This new recording is of his Frisco-style of jazz which Punch Miller and Paul Barbarin. Three separate sessions was a development of the music of King Oliver’s Creole here from 1950, 1951 and 1958. It doesn’t get any better Jazz Band of 1923. The CD runs a generous 71 minutes. than this! NEW!

SAVANNAH JAZZ BAND – Why Don’t You Go Down To New SAMMY RIMINGTON & BIG BILL BISSONNETTE – Watering Orleans? PKCD404 1 CD £12.99 The Roots JCCD3011 1 CD £12.99 This fine Yorkshire favourite – Savannah Jazz Band – was recorded live at The Risley Park Jazz Club in March 2016. Big Bill wrote in the notes that it is essential to The band is on fine form and the CD runs 63 minutes. “water the roots” of New Orleans jazz to keep the The line-up is Bill Smith cornet, vocals & harmonica, flame burning. This CD was recorded in 1955 and the Roger Myerscough clarinet, alto sax, & vocals, Brian Ellis personnel were jazz perfection as Sammy and Big Bill trombone & piano, Chris Marney banjo & vocals, Tony were joined by Eric Webster, Ken Matthews and Colin Pollitt bass and John Meehan drums. Bowden, with special guest Sarah Spencer. There are NEW! some great tunes here which are rarely heard in the New Orleans style! MARTIN BENNETT’S BLACK SWAN JAZZ BAND With Special Guests PKCD401 1 CD £12.99 KID SHEIK & BROTHER CORNBREAD – IN COPENHAGEN The Black Swan at Hollins Green, Warrington is where 1974 JCCD3002 1 CD £12.99 Martin Bennett holds his regular monthly club sessions, usually with his Old Green River Band. On this occasion he was able to obtain the services of Jack Andersson A recording of a wonderful tour of Scandinavia in 1974 (trumpet) from Sweden who was in town having his by Kid Sheik Cola with special guest Joseph ‘Brother instrument serviced. Howard Murray (reeds) was away Cornbread’ Thomas, a New Orleans old stager and first and John Hallam stepped in. Derek Galloway (for many class clarinet! The Kid had to work hard to ensure that years the front man of the Temperance Seven) joined the NEW! Cornbread did not get all the attention, and when you band on trombone. This was a proper old-style impromptu pub jazz session and the listen to the end result here, I think you will agree that both result is here for you to enjoy! Kid Sheik and Brother Cornbread were seriously underrated. THE EAGLE JAZZ BAND – Memories PKCD406 1 CD £12.99 NORMAN THATCHER’S RAGTIME BAND - What Do You Want Me To Do? JCCD3028 1 CD £12.99 The Millenium Eagle Jazz Band has changed its name back to The Eagle Jazzband, their original name when the band formed in 1951, but nothing else has changed. They are Norman Thatcher was nothing if not versatile. While he still one of the UK’s finest hot traditional jazz bands and made his reputation leading the Ken Colyer Trust New this CD from a session last March at Burton-on-Trent Jazz Orleans Jazz Band he is no mere Colyer clone! There is only Club, shows the band at its best. The CD runs a generous a touch of Britain’s most successful trumpet player in his 74 minutes. NEW! style - and that in sublime moderation. This is an unusual album for him - and indeed for Jazz Crusade - drawing more on Bix Biederbecke than any of the others! BRIAN CARRICK’S HERITAGE HALL STOMPERS The 1992 Sessions Volume 1 PKCD403 1 CD £12.99 - Volume 2 PKCD405 1 CD £12.99 THATCHER, BLOUNT & VICKERS – River Stay ‘Way JCCD3018 1 CD £12.99 SPECIAL OFFER! PKCD701 Buy both volumes together for £22 This CD features some of the finest British jazzmen The Keswick Jazz Festival was launched in 1992 and from three of the UK’s top bands – The Ken Colyer Trust Brian Carrick’s Heritage Hall Stompers played two New Orleans Jazz Band, The Jubilee Jazz Band and the sessions on the opening day. Here they are now released Chris Blount New Orleans Jazz Band – coming together for the first time of CD, and while the recording quality for a session at The Bull at Barnes in December 1995. It is not to today’s standard, this deficiency is more than features lots of unusual tunes and a great ensemble! Dave made up for by the electric atmosphere and the superb Brennan and Malc Murphy also feature here. music! NEW! KID ORY & RED ALLEN – A Jazz Concert in Berlin 1st Set JCCD3125 1 CD £12.99 THE KEN COLYER LEGACY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND on 2nd Set JCCD3126 1 CD £12.99 PEK PKCD300 Some Changes Made 1 CD £12.99 PKCD333 Further Evidence 1 CD £12.99 SPECIAL OFFER! PKCD702 Buy the two together SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7004 Buy the two sets for £22 together for £22 Two CDs from this popular band - the first was The music here is very exciting and the ‘jazzmanship’ recorded in 2006, the second in 2008, but the line-up phenomenal – a great mix of black and white for both is the same: Tony O’Sullivan trumpet, John musicians swinging together! Recorded for Kid Ory Crocker clarinet and alto sax, Len Baldwin trombone, as part of his European Tour agreement in 1959. So Peter Morcomb tenor banjo, Gerry Rose double bass welcome to Cold War Berlin just two years before the and Malc Murphy drums. They make no attempt wall went up to keep East Berliners from having the slavishly to copy the sound of a Ken Colyer band but sort of fun you’ll be listening to on this record! rather they play with integrity the style of music to which Ken devoted his life.

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URCD027 IN RETROSPECT SERIES 3 CDs £33 URCD010 THE FULL MONTY SUNSHINE – Volumes 1 & 2 2 CDs £22 URCD268D TJ Johnson double CD celebrating his 30 years in Jazz and Blues. URCD184 features Beryl Bryden and URCD269 Terry Lightfoot single CD reissue of George Melly in BBC broadcasts from Stardust to mark his passing in 2013. 1961 – 62, plus an NDR broadcast from 1967, while URCD206 has tracks from 1980 – 90. URCD270 Roger Marks – Marks Out Of Twenty – celebrating 20 years a bandleader.

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Two of our most popular BBC Colyer releases together at a special price! Serenading Auntie has 21 tracks recorded by Two collections of BBC broadcast material from the BBC for both TV and radio broadcasts between 1955 Chris Barber’s Jazz Band. Volume 1 URCD146 has and 1960, while Once More for Auntie brings the broadcast broadcasts dating from 1961-1962 while Volume 2 material into the 1970s with broadcasts from 1972, ’75 URCD177 comprises broadcasts from 1961-1963. & ’77. All your favourite band members are featured, Both CDs feature Ottilie Patterson. including Sammy Rimington, Mac Duncan, Ian Wheeler, Johnny Bastable, Ray Foxley, Mickey Ashman and Colin Bowden.

URCD011 GEORGE LEWIS COLLECTION 4 VOLUMES £44 URCD021 KID ORY COLLECTION 4 CD SET £44 Fantastic offer – all four of our double George Lewis CDs for a terrific price! URCD259 URCD262D URCD236 URCD241 3 single CDs and 1 double from this trombone legend. URCD233D George Lewis & Alton Purnell, URCD259 is the first CD release ofThe Original Jazz from 1957. URCD262D is a double which has tracks from URCD237D Dr Jazz & Blues from the Bayou, Storyville Nights, Dixieland Marching Songs & Kid Ory plays URCD240D Vintage George Lewis and WC Handy. URCD236 has the popular Verve album The Kid From New Orleans together with a guest appearance at URCD244D Jass at the Ohio Union. Newport Jazz Festival. URCD241 has 2 albums Song of the Wayfarer and tracks from Dance with Kid Ory, or Just Listen.

URCD009 LONNIE DONEGAN Jubilee Concert 1981 URCD020 THE LONDON SWING ORCHESTRA 4 CD SET £44 2 CDs £22

URCD249 URCD255 URCD263 URCD266 URCD214 First half and URCD218 second The complete 4 CD history of 20th century music from the half of the Fairfield Hall Jubilee concert in 1981 London Swing Orchestra featured on Friday Night Is Music featuring Lonnie with Ken Colyer, Pat Halcox, Night . URCD249 is The Roaring Twenties, URCD255 is The Chris Barber, Monty Sunshine, Jim Bray & Elegant Thirties. URCD263 is The Birth of Swing 1935-45 Colin Bowden! What a line – up! while URCD266 is The Rise of the 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.”

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Set 1 URCD016 These four CDs feature Portraits of Papa Mutt Carey, Kid Ory, Muggsy Spanier and Jelly URCD149, URCD189 and URCD202. Roll Morton. Three CDs from the Classic Colyer band featuring Ken with Ian Wheeler, Mac Duncan, Ray Foxley, Johnny Bastable, Ron Ward, and Colin Bowden. Tracks from 1957 at Studio 51, 1957 at Eel Pie Island and 1960 at The Dancing Slipper. Set 2 URCD017 The second set of 4 CDs feature portraits of Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Louis Jordan and George Lewis. URCD019 KEN COLYER at the Royal Festival Hall 1954 The Lost Tapes 2 CD SET £22

URCD198 & URCD205, URCD198 sees Ken Colyer’s Set 3 URCD018 The third set of CDs features Jazzmen and Skiffle Group in concert at the Royal Festival Portraits of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bunk Johnson, Louis Hall in 1954 featuring Chris Barber, Monty Sunshine and Armstrong, and Louis Prima. Lonnie Donegan. There are more tracks from this concert on URCD205 plus a bonus of 8 great tracks from the Colston Hall 1956 featuring Ian Wheeler and Mac Duncan.

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URCD169 – AT THE JAZZ BAND BALL Volume 3 URCD201 - LIVE AT THE LORD NAPIER 1973 Volume 2 - The Mac From the popular BBC broadcasts featuring Humphrey Lyttelton, Duncan Jazz Band - Recorded at the height of the 70s jazz revival, here The Fairweather Brown All Stars, Bruce Turner, Diz Disley, Alex we have Mac Duncan Jazz Band & Sonny Morris Live at the Lord Napier Welsh & The Brian Lemon Trio. plus the only recording of The Frantique Jazz Band from August 1975.

URCD152 - BBC JAZZ FROM THE ‘70s AND ‘80s In Stereophonic URCD215 - MUGGSY A-Z - A Portrait of Muggsy Spanier Sound Volume 1 - Humphrey Lyttelton, Alan Elsdon, Sammy Recordings date from 1924 - 1952 to give a rounded portrait of this Rimington, Pat Halcox & John Barnes/Roy Williams 5 cornet master featuring Sidney Bechet, Eddie Condon, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins and Pee Wee Russell.

URCD125 – BEST OF BRITISH JAZZ FROM THE BBC JAZZ CLUB URCD209 - SIMPLY THE BEST - BRITISH JAZZ FROM THE 1950s Volume 5 - Featuring Chris Barber, Ken Colyer, Monty Sunshine, – Volume 1 - Artists featured here are Chris Barber, Ken Colyer, Bruce Turner, Ian Wheeler, Micky Ashman & more. Lonnie Donegan, The Crane River JB, The Christie Brothers, Ray Foxley, Harry Gold & Humphrey Lyttelton.

URCD183 - THE BEST OF BRITISH JAZZ FROM THE BBC JAZZ URCD213 - SIMPLY THE BEST - BRITISH JAZZ FROM THE 1950s - CLUB Volume 9 - 5 great bands here: Ken Colyer All Star JB, The Volume 2 - The second volume features Chris Barber, Lonnie Donegan’s Saints JB, Mick Mulligan with George Melly, Diz Disley Quintet and Skiffle Group, Ken Colyer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Mick Mulligan with Mike Daniels Delta JB. George Melly, Sandy Brown, Freddie Randall and Cy Laurie.

URCD204 - BIRTH OF THE ALL STARS - A Portrait of Louis URCD163 - SINGIN’ THE BLUES - Vic Lewis and Jack Parnell’s Armstrong - This CD traces the background to the touring band Jazzmen - The tracks were laid down in 1944 and 1945 - that sustained Armstrong’s world-wide fame. 21 tracks of glorious outstanding jazz which still sounds fresh and exciting today! music from the one and only Sachmo 1947-1954.

URCD235 - BUNK’S BLUES - Bunk Johnson URCD243 - SING, SING, SING - Louis Prima A new anthology of rare tracks by one of the true legends of New Prima helped bring New Orleans music to a wider public, and this Orleans Jazz, which reminds us what a vital link Bunk was to the CD traces the evolution of his charismatic talent 1933 –1955, very earliest days of jazz. including some unusual sides unavailable elsewhere.

URCD165 – CAPTURED MOMENTS – Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen & URCD181 - SONNY MORRIS and FRIENDS IN GERMANY Skiffle Group -Rare Colyer dating from 1955. The famous radio Sonny Morris sessions recorded in Germany between 1999 and broadcast from NDR in Germany is broadcast quality with the 2000. The musicians here include Ian Wheeler, Dickie Bishop and band on excellent form. Lutz Eikelmann.

URCD147 – THE DIRTY BOPPER – Bruce Turner Quartet JCCD3080 - STREET MUSIC – Tuba Fats Chosen Few Jazzmen Calligraph re-issue from 1985 of the fabulous Bruce Turner! Plus 3 This is marching band music that brings everyone out onto the bonus tracks from Humphrey Lyttelton & his Band. street! Tracks from 1985 & 2002.

URCD217 - STUDIO 51 CLUB SESSIONS WITH COLYER - Ken JCCD3114 – DRUM FACE Volume 1 – Zutty Singleton Colyer’s Allstars A career retrospective of this iconic New Orleans drummer. Great line-up including Sammy Rimington - with some unusual tracks not easily found on other albums.

URCD199 – 50 YEARS ON – A CELEBRATION OF THE MUSIC OF URCD196 - SUNSET AT SAND BAY - THE KEN COLYER TRUST NEW KEN COLYER - Recorded live at the Purcell Room on 17th April ORLEANS JAZZ BAND - Music recorded at Sand Bay over the Easter 2004. An all star line-up including Ian Wheeler Acker Bilk, Stan Weekend in 2000. Players include John Wiseman, Malc Hurrell, Micky Greig, Micky Ashman, Diz Disley, Peter Morcomb & Colin Bowden. Ashman, Malc Murphy with guests Ian Wheeler & Alan Robinson.

URCD174 - HUMPHREY LYTTELTON BIG BAND WITH JIMMY URCD138 - THIS OLD GANG OF OURS – KENNY DAVERN & RUSHING - 1958 broadcast from the BBC Jazz Club featuring HUMPHREY LYTTELTON Jimmy Rushing with Humph and his band. Studio recording from 1985 plus 2 bonus tracks from 1986.

JCCD3036 - JAZZ NOCTURNE Volume 1 URCD192 - VIC LEWIS NEW YORK JAZZMEN 1938 The first release in this popular mini-series sees Bunk Johnson, One of Alistair Cooke’s momentous transatlantic broadcast jam Peter Bocage and Sidney Bechet in Boston 1945. Featuring George sessions featuring Bobby Hackett, Zutty Singleton, Pee Wee Russell, Thompson & Pops Foster. Eddie Condon, Jack Parnell, George Chisholm.

URCD218 - JUBILEE CONCERT 1981 2nd Half – Lonnie Donegan JCCD3060 - WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS – Big Bill The second half of the 1981 Jubilee concert from London’s Fairfield Bissonnette & The Easy Riders Jazz Band Halls! The CD also features bonus tracks from Donegan’s Dancing Recorded in 1988 featuring Sammy Rimington, Paul Boehmke & Sunshine Band. This is Lonnie at his very best! Emil Mark.

URCD212 - THE LAST TOUR - Lonnie Donegan URCD220 - THE WRITING ON THE WALL - The Temperance Seven Superb ‘live’ recording of Lonnie’s last tour recorded in October - Recorded in 1992, the CD has 17 great tracks by this much-loved 2002, plus bonus tracks from his son Peter who played piano on band. Personnel include Captain Christopher Buckley, Colonel the Last Tour. Alexander Hitchcock Galloway & Flight Commander Patrick Rixon.

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JIMMY DORSEY’S DORSEYLAND JAZZ BAND JACK TEAGARDEN / EARL HINES – All Stars In Concert Live in the USA 1950 Volume 2 URCD273 1 CD £12.99 Volume 2 JCCD3128 1 CD £12.99 NEW! Both of these excellent volumes made The Jazz Rag NEW! Top Ten!!! In the early 1930s, Jimmy Dorsey was the star of the great Ted Lewis Band. He and his brother Tommy then went on Volume 2 of this fabulous 1957 Manchester concert by a specially to greatness in the Swing Era, both leading successful big assembled group starring two icons of Jazz. The concert was bands. Both bands had smaller ‘Dixieland’ combos within presented by The National Jazz Federation, and with the obvious the big bands – and Jimmy’s Dorseyland Jazz Band was one exception of Max Kaminsky, every musician had previously been of the hottest dixieland jazz bands ever! The tracks on this a member of Louis Armstrong’s All Stars. The promoters thought CD are from New York City Airshots recorded live at the they would appeal to the British public in the same way Satchmo Hotel Statler in 1950. himself had on his first post-war visit the previous year – and judging by the rapturous applause, the audience agreed! Volume 1 SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7017 (URCD258) has quickly sold out of its first pressing and has joined our all-time fastest sellers! Buy the 2 CDs together for £22 SPECIAL OFFER! URCD029 Buy volumes 1 & 2 together for £22

REISSUED! KEN COLYER TRUST NEW ORLEANS JAZZ PAT HAWES AND SARAH SPENCER LIVE AT THE BULL AT BAND – A Tribute to the Original Crane River Jazz Band BARNES 1996 JCCD3020 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3027 1 CD £12.99 By the time of the 1972 Crane River Jazz Band reunion tour, On this session there are some excellent British musicians, each of the original musicians had charted his own music led from the sax by Sarah Spencer. Also featured are course. Thus the ‘72 band had a sound of its own, very Pat Hawes and Dave Brennan, who were both in the distinct, very different from the uniqueness of the original International Jazz Band, and Pat of course was also in the Cranes. This CD is a tribute to the sound of the original Original Crane River Jazz Band. Annie Hawkins is on string Cranes by the only band in England who can pull it off! It bass, while Ken Pye always brings back happy memories of is a strong line-up, featuring Sonny Morris, Norman Field, Kid Thomas and Paul Munnery recalls the style of the great Dave Vickers, Hugh Crozier, Malcolm Hurrell, Terry Knight, Harlem player. This is seriously good jazz! Malc Murphy and of course, Norman Thatcher. The tune selection contains many of their repertoire, but is not limited to it.

REISSUED! PAUL BARBARIN’S ONWARD BRASS BAND In Concert 1968 REISSUED! JOHNNY PARKER’S BRITISH ALL STARS featuring JCCD3049 1 CD £12.99 GEOFF COLE & BRIAN CARRICK – It Looks Like A Big Time Tonight JCCD3010 1 CD £12.99 The Onward Brass Band name has an historic place in New Orleans musical history, dating back to the very origins of These sessions were recorded at the Bull at Barnes with jazz. When the band marched triumphantly back from the pianist Johnny Parker and clarinettist Brian Carrick both Spanish/American war in 1899 it featured Isadore Barbarin. in leg braces and walking with canes as a result of their This is a good time band playing songs familiar to all fans of various afflictions - but when it came to the music, they are traditional jazz and even Dixieland. It even has a banjo! The second to none. This is a great ensemble and produced a band sent its fans into fits of ecstasy at this concert for the marvellous session! The personnel are Johnny Parker at the Connecticut Traditional Jazz Club in July 1968. Personnel are Paul Barbarin with Ernest piano with Brian Carrick clarinet, Geoff Cole trombone, Dave Cagnolatti, Alvin Alcorn, Wendell Eugene, Clement Tervalon, Louis Cottrell, Danny Barker, Copperwaite trumpet, Sarah Spencer sax, Eric Webster banjo, Terry Knight string bass and Freddie Kohlman and Jerry Green. Not to be missed! Taff Lloyd on drums. SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7011 Buy Big Time Tonight with JCCD3029 At the 100 Club with Ken Colyer £22 REISSUED! TUBA FATS’ CHOSEN FEW JAZZMEN JCCD3078 1 CD £12.99 REISSUED! WILBUR de PARIS – In Europe 1960 Big Bill rates this CD as one of the greatest he ever produced JCCD3082 1 CD £12.99 for Jazz Crusade! The session will introduce you to some amazing jazz talent you are probably not familiar with. All This is the fifth CD of the Wilbur De Paris band for Jazz the excitement is there. It was recorded at the Audiophile Crusade. The recordings date from June 1960 and were Studios in New Orleans in April 2002 and most of these recorded in France. The 11 tracks see Wilbur in fine form and black New Orleans musicians decided to sing a track. So you he swings more than usual. Sidney blows some great stuff! are in for a treat of great jazz singing as it should be done. It’s Wilbur and Sidney’s one last fling - God bless them for The personnel here are Anthony ‘Tuba Fats’ Lacen, Kenneth the good times they gave us! (Big Bill). ‘Little Milton’ Terry Elliott ‘Stackman’ Callier, Darryl ‘Lil’ Jazz’ Adams, Eddie Boh ‘Funky The full personnel here are Wilbur De Paris trombone, Sidney Chops’ Paris, Gerald ‘The Giant’ French, Reide Kaiser & Emil Mark. De Paris trumpet, Doc Cheatham trumpet, Garvin Bushell reeds, Sonny White piano, John Smith banjo/guitar, Hayes Alvis string bass, Wilbert Kirk drums.

ROGER MARKS – Marks & Sparks SPECIAL OFFER! JCCD7006 Buy with JCCD3032 De Paris in Canada 2 CDs £22 URCD278 1 CD £12.99 Roger is a popular band leader in the South Country and NEW! REISSUED! THE CHRIS BLOUNT NEW ORLEANS JAZZ is busy with various bands including his Cornish Armada and his Armada Jazz Band. Great line-ups here with each BAND - Chris! JCCD3022 1 CD £12.99 track featuring a combination of trombone and reeds up Chris Blount began his career in the 1950s - this current front, as each partnership takes on its own distinctive recording dates from 1996. All the players on this disc are fine sound. The reeds in question are popular favourites, Pete in their own right, but as an ensemble they are exceptional, Allen, Julian-Marc Stringle, Bruce Turner, Ken Rennison and the effect is wonderful. Derek WInters’ strong, solid and Craig Milverton. This album which runs a generous bedrock trumpet lead gives the band punch and drive - but 73 minutes. You can still buy Roger’s first CD on Upbeat Chris Blount is what this CD is all about! In the style of George -URCD270 Marks out of Twenty @ £12.99 Lewis, he is a real New Orleans style master. Although he has never been to New Orleans, New Orleans has been to him for a very long time! Full personnel are Chris Blount clarinet, Derek Winters trumpet, Ron SPECIAL OFFER! URCD028 Buy 2 Roger Radford trombone, Barry Grummett piano, Tony Peatman banjo, Harry Slater string bass Marks’ CDs together for £22 and Steve Upton drums.

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