Ken Colyer on Video
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1 1 Here we are again, anotherNewsletter year and we 2015 have finally made the move! BUY 3 There are some great new 2016 GET1 FREE releases here so we hope you will all find something SEE INSIDE! to enjoy! Here’s to another great year of jazz. Ken Colyer Liz Biddle on Video URDVD267 £15.99 This DVD is compiled from rare footage on one of the few occasions DVD when Ken Colyer was filmed. It was shot as an amateur video and so the sound and lighting quality are not of professional standard. Despite the graininess and variable focus, its historical significance of one of Europe’s most revered and influential NEW! jazz figures makes it valuable for all those who love Colyer. TJ JOHNSON IN RETROSPECT A Celebration of 30 years in jazz and blues NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW!URCD268D KEN COLYER’S ALL STARS HOT STUFF! THE LONDON SWING featuring Early Jazz Revisited ORCHESTRA featuring TJ JOHNSON in Retrospect A Celebration of 30 Years SAMMY RIMINGTON GRAHAM DALBY URCD264 1 CD £12.99 in Jazz and Blues Colyer from the The Rise of the Crooner Recorded on March 21st 1992 at URCD268 2 CDs £14.99 URCD266 1 CD £12.99 Archives the House of Solberg, Banstead, URCD265 1 CD £12.99 Surrey, this CD features some of A great accolade came from Ken The fourth and final CD in this the hottest names in jazz – Dick Colyer when TJ was a young man. popular series charting the history of Ken first met TJ in Max Collie’s Mardi This live Thames riverboat session dates Charlesworth on clarinet & saxes, popular music in the 20th Century. Gras show and remarked that with from the early 70s. Ken had recently Mike Pointon trombone & vocals, This selection follows the Rise of the such talent he would go far. He also closed his Studio 51 Club and given Chez Chesterman cornet & vocals, Crooner 1945 – 75. The recordings invited TJ to the Wednesday nights at up leading a regular band, but was Pat Hawes piano, Jim Forey banjo were made to mark the 25th the 100 Club when Ken’s band were offered a regular weekly slot at the 100 & guitar, John Rodber bass and Rex Anniversary of The London Swing playing and invited Club in Oxford Street and the All Stars Bennett drums. There are 15 tracks Orchestra – formerly known as The him on stage when he saw him. were born. The stars on this recording lasting a total of 61+ minutes of hot Grahamophones. They regularly Praise indeed. This double CD is a are Sammy Rimington, Mike Pointon, jazz. This new release is to celebrate perform throughout the UK at high retrospective look over the last 30 Bill Stotesbury, Annie Hawkins and the reforming of the band in profile theatres and festivals and years TJ has spent playing jazz and Colin Bowden. 72 glorious minutes of May 2015. also at corporate events. blues and it is a delight! He gives new previously unreleased material! A happy slants to well – known songs and the occasion. double CD swings from beginning to end. Highly recommended. Order by phone 0843Order 658 by phone0856 0843 or online 658 0856 www.upbeatmailorder.co.uk or online www.upbeatmailorder.co.uk UpBeat Newsletter 2015 150911v2.indd 1 11/09/2015 13:03 2 LAKE British Traditional Jazz At A Tangent Volume 7 CY LAURIE JAZZ BAND – A Jazz Club Session CHICAGO – DIXIELAND STYLE BANDS – VARIOUS ARTISTS with Cy Laurie LACD341 1 CD £12.99 LACD199 1 CD £12.99 A great addition to this popular series, this compilation looks at the bands mostly inspired by the Chicago school The Allan Gilmour tapes featured well recorded ‘live’ of Jazz. Here we hear some lesser known bands as well sessions from the famous Dancing Slipper Jazz Club in as some rare gems from Bobby Mickleburgh, Harry Gold, Nottingham. Here we have a generous 79+ minutes of Joe Daniels, Sid Phillips, Carlo Khramer & Archie Semple. hot, stomping jazz from the Cy Laurie Band. NEW! CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ & BLUES BAND – The Class of ’78 KEN COLYER – Memories – A Jazz Club Session with Sammy Rimington LACD337 1 CD £12.99 This collection was one of the classic issues by the Barber LACD256 1 CD £12.99 band of the 70s and had some changes in personnel: Recorded at the Dancing Slipper Jazz Club in Vic Pitt had joined on bass, Roger Hill had replaced John Nottingham, this CD features one of the least recorded Slaughter and Pete York had joined. The most significant of Ken Colyer’s full – time bands. Dating from 1963 the change though was the addition of a second reed in band is Sammy Rimington, Geoff Cole, John Bastable, the front line. This role was undertaken by Sammy Ron Ward and Pete Ridge. Very good sound and some Rimington. It’s a typical varied Chris Barber set, well tunes not recorded by Colyer elsewhere. recorded in concert. NEW! NEW CENTURY RAGTIME ORCHESTRA – Singing in ALEX WELSH & HIS BAND – A Jazz Club Session The Bathtub LACD258 1 CD £12.99 LACD336 1 CD £12.99 Founded in 1998, the NCRO has now expanded to Previously unreleased material recorded in 1963 at the 13 players and repertoire includes classic Jazz & Hot Dancing Slipper Jazz Club in Nottingham. The music is Dance Music alongside the Orchestrated Ragtime excellently recorded and finds the Welsh band in fine tunes. Tunes on this CD date from 1903 and run the form. Featuring Roy Crimmins, Lennie Hastings, Tony Pitt, whole gamut up to 1931! The band plays with a love Bert Murray, Bill Reid and the superb Al Gay. of this music and the enthusiasm comes through loud and clear. Two guests join the band on the CD: Keith Nichols and Nick Ward. NEW! BEN COHEN with BRIAN WHITE’S MAGNA JAZZ BAND MONTY SUNSHINE & HIS BAND – A Jazz Club Session Remembering Ben Cohen LACD224 1 CD £12.99 LACD334 1 CD £12.99 This CD is dedicated to cornet player Ben Cohen. His From a series of recordings made by Allan Gilmour at break came when he joined Chris Barber’s New Orleans The Dancing Slipper, Nottingham. This is a real stomping Jazz Band in 1950. Until his death in 2002, Ben Cohen session – the band includes Ian Hunter – Randall, Charlie was highly regarded as a fiery ‘hot’ player in the early Galbraith, Colin Bates, Ron Russell and Geoff Downs. Louis Armstrong mould. This is good, swinging jazz in the Chicago style and shows why Ben Cohen was so well regarded by musicians and jazz fans alike. NEW! KEN MATHIESON’S CLASSIC JAZZ BAND BOB WALLIS & HIS STORYVILLE JAZZMEN – A Jazz Clarinet Gumbo Club Session LACD333 1 CD £12.99 LACD326 2 CDs £12.99 Ken’s modern arrangements of classic songs for his eight The Storyville Jazzmen were at the very commercial end piece band resulting in a refreshing take on often well – of the Trad Jazz period and these recordings are quite a worn tunes. The guest here is the hugely talented New revelation in that they show the band away from the Orleans bass clarinettist, Evan Christopher. The tunes concert stage and in a Jazz club “letting its hair down”, are associated with legendary clarinet players – Bechet, playing some spirited Jazz and enjoying itself. It was a Bigard, Simeon, Hall, Noone and others. Christopher is band of quality musicians and these well recorded sides undoubtedly the star but the rest of the band rise to give show much better than its commercial recordings just first class support. NEW! what it was capable of. Remembering Pat Halcox, Chris Barber, Humph & many more THE CRANE RIVER JAZZ BAND – A Jazz Club Session LACD338 DOUBLE CD ONLY £12.99 LACD306 1 CD £12.99 When Pat Halcox joined Chris Barber’s Jazz Band in the One of the legendary bands of the British Jazz Revival of the early 1950s it started a remarkable career and produced the 1940s. It contained several musicians who went on to have longest serving partnership in Jazz as Pat held the trumpet leading roles on the Jazz scene: Ken Colyer, Monty Sunshine, chair until 2008. CD1 has Pat playing with Chris Barber’s John RT Davies, Sonny Morris. They disbanded in the 1950s band, with a few tracks from each decade with guests Alex then reformed in the 1970s. This recording, part of the Welsh and Kenny Ball. CD2 has Pat guesting with other collection of recordings made by Allan Gilmour at the Dancing bands – including Humph’s and Alex Welsh’s – playing with Slipper in Nottingham, features the band honouring a gig American visitors Art Hodes and Don Ewell & fronting his NEW! shortly after Ken Colyer died. It is a typical Cranes ‘live’ session own All Stars. None of the tracks has been released before. with plenty of atmosphere and some good stomping Jazz. Order by phone 0843 658 0856 or online www.upbeatmailorder.co.uk UpBeat Newsletter 2015 150911v2.indd 2 11/09/2015 13:03 LAKE 3 LAKE KEN COLYER 1957 – 58 Lonesome Road OTTILIE PATTERSON – Blues Book and Beyond LACD267 DOUBLE CD FOR £12.99 LACD296 1 CD £12.99 The original album Blues Book & Beyond is classic blues, A collection of significant recordings made by Ken Colyer R ‘n’ B material and a couple of her original compositions, in the years 1957 and 1958. Includes the rare Hamburg enhanced with previously unreleased tracks – 4 from concert by the Jazzmen and Skiffle Group, the EP ‘They Ottilie Swings the Irish EP – and 3 which had limited All Played Ragtime’, the equally rare ‘live’ set which was release.