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ISSUE 20 ° May 2010 Ne w s L E T T e R Editor: Dave Gelly ISSUE 20 ° May 2010 Lottery Funding - Stage Two Success Our Lottery Fund applica- tion for a Development Grant has been approved.The Archive has been awarded £26,700 to build up an access programme which will ensure that the best Angela Davies, project manager possible use is made of its resources. eventual aim is to make the Photo: John Root, Ongar Jazz bulk of our material available George Webb The programme, which will NATIONAL JAZZ ARCHIVE JAZZ NATIONAL online, an immense technical, take six months to complete, legal and administrative task. George Webb, founding father of will work mainly on education, the British Jazz Revival and a cataloguing and conservation. This award follows the suc- cessful completion last year of valued patron of the Archive, died We shall soon be taking on an on 10th March, aged 92. There education and outreach con- a project-planning programme, sultant, who will draw up plans funded by the Heritage Lottery will be a grand show in honour of for study packs and other Fund. George on Sunday 9th May at the teaching resources, together The Archive’s collection 100 Club. See page 7 for full with ideas for making the now contains over 25,000 sep- Archive’s ever-expanding range arate items, comprising books, details and Digby Fairweather’s of material more user-friendly. magazines, pictures, cuttings, personal tribute. Equally important, we shall posters, radio scripts and the be working closely with our personal papers of several colleagues at Essex Record leading jazz musicians and Office in planning a fully com- commentators. prehensive catalogue. We will Councillor David Finch, also welcome their expert help Essex County Council in the delicate and tricky work Cabinet Member for Adults, of conserving old and fragile Health and Community material. Wellbeing, commented: ‘The Angela Davies has been Council has been active in reappointed Project Manager supporting the National Jazz N J A to oversee the whole scheme. Archive for many years. I am Loughton Library, Traps Hill delighted to learn that the Loughton, Essex IG10 1HD We shall then have every- Archive has been successful Tel. 020 8502 0181 thing in place to apply for sec- in achieving Heritage Lottery Fax 020 8508 5041 ond-round major funding to Funding to develop and con- e-mail: [email protected] transform the Archive into a serve their unique collection, website: nationaljazzarchive.co.uk 21st century resource. The which is based in Essex.’ SUPPORTED BY ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, LIBRARIES ARCHIVE NEWS by DAVID NATHAN to the book on Adelaide Hall, and some excellent DONATIONS photographs of the Fela Chelmsford Jazz Club Sowande Band, taken at the The club has kindly sent us a Florida Club in 1939, Peter cheque for £250, which is made a most unusual much appreciated.We thank donation from the estate of them for their generous Vic Lewis - the Melody support.. Maker Cricket Challenge Edward Battershall Cup.This came together with a booklet of The late Mr Battershall left photographs of the cricket us his splendid collection of David Nathan teams organised by Vic over books and magazines in his already had.There was also a the years, which included will.Among notable items large quantity of Cadence many sporting and show- were the special magazine magazines, including several business personalities. published by Capitol that we did not already hold. Records on their 50th Other donations anniversary and Terry Roger Farbey Our thanks also go to all our O’Neill’s book of Frank In addition to the new book donors since the last Sinatra photographs, neither mentioned below, Roger Newsletter, including: Les of which were in our brought in six large files Adams, Ronald Atkins, collection. Runs of magazines containing Ian Carr archive Kenneth Ball, Martin Colvill, such as Jazzwise and Jazz material. Molly Dagnall,Alan Dent, Review will be included in Eric Koss Robin Dorling (on behalf of our outreach programme, the late Len Gillman), Jill Llewellyn, partner of the organised by Graham Michael Barrymore Dunn, late Eric Koss, brought in Langley. Mike Durham, Peter two terrific large, framed Edwards, Digby Fairweather, We were allowed to sell Mr photographs of Buddy Rich Battershall’s fine collection of Jackie Free, Mike Garlick (on and Oscar Peterson, behalf of the late Mike LPs and CDs, which raised together with framed the sum of £810 for the Mealing), Geoffrey Gilbert, caricatures of Buddy Rich Brian Gladwell, R. Hook, Jane Archive. Our grateful thanks and Stan Getz. to Edward Battershall’s Hunter-Randall, Dame Celia To n y Lloyd cousin, Marian Webb, for her Lipton, Dick Laurie, Stephen help in arranging this kind To ny brought in a signed Luke, Roger Miles, Scott donation. photograph of Buddy Rich, Nichol, Colin Prescott, plus concert programme and Gladyse Saul, Rex Shanley Tom Davis magazines relating to Buddy and John Wallbank. I collected from Tom Davis and others, which we did not New Books copies of the Canadian Jazz have. Discography, six volumes of Apart from those we Peter Powell Raben’s Jazz Records 1942- purchase courtesy of Essex 1980 and three Bielefelder Apart from sending in an County Council, the catalogues, none of which we important caption correction following new books have 2 National Jazz Archive Newsletter Issue 20 kindly been donated: Roger Wegweiser Jazz (JazzInstitut Rather like the buses, Farbey,The Music of Ian Carr Darmstadt) - a breakdown nothing had had appeared in -a Critical Discography; Bob of jazz organisations and the general press for some Brunning and Bill Smith,The events in Germany, time, then along came two 100 Club - an Oral History Press Publicity local newspapers in the same (Northdown Publishing); week with full-page spreads Our thanks go to Just Jazz Mike Gerber, Jazz Jews (Five on the Archive. Our thanks magazine for their continuing Leaves Publications); Paddy to Edmund Tobin for his support of the archive and Lightfoot, Six Musicians and a feature in the Epping Forest for including an Banjo Player (Vanguard Guardian of 4th March and advertisement for us in each Press); Maurice Summerfield, to Anna Nalborczyk from issue.Also to them, Jazz Barney Kessel - a Jazz the Loughton and Buckhurst Journal, Jazz UK and The Jazz Legend (Ashley Mark Hill Recorder for her article Rag for including details of Publishing Co); Paul Swinton, on 11th March, following a our Heritage Lottery Fund The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual brief item two weeks earlier. award - and for publicising No 1 (Frog Records Ltd); the November and Volunteers Ronnie Scott’s at Fifty December gigs. Last but by no means least, (Palmglen Ltd) - via Paul our ongoing thanks to our Pace; Leslie Thompson (with Ted Hall, Chairman of the valiant band of volunteers Jeffrey Green), Swing From A London Branch of the for their terrific help.They Small Island (Northway Sinatra Music Society, wrote are Wally Barnard, Gemma Books);Trevor Tolley, a lovely piece, headed Boyd, Steve Carter,Alan Discographical Essays (Seven “Happy 21st Birthday Quaife, Christine Smith and Willows); Rich J. Johnson, Bix National Jazz Archive” in the George Wilkinson. - the Davenport Album recent issue of Perfectly (Razor Edge Press); Frank. Having a ball with Kenny There were two hours of great music at the 100 Club when NJA Patron Kenny Ball held a special benefit show for the Archive on 1st December. The superb rhythm section of Ted Beament (piano), Len Skeat (bass) and Bobby Worth (drums) was joined by Chris Gower (trom- bone), Tim Huskisson (clarinet), Karen Sharp and Dave Gelly (tenors), John Altman (soprano & baritone), plus special guests Val Photo: John Root, Ongar Jazz Wiseman and Eric Delaney. Kenny himself Kenny Ball and Digby swing out for the NJA was in fine form and played magnificently. at the 100 Club Expertly hosting the whole affair and play- ing elegant trumpet was the inexhaustible to Jeff Horton of 100 Club for again donat- Digby Fairweather. ing his club’s facilities to the cause. The gig raised a total of £635. Our thanks Issue 20 National Jazz Archive Newsletter 3 Digby in the spotlight Digby Fairweather, founder of his own band, Digby examination, this turned out the Archive and no stranger Fairweather’s Half-Dozen, to contain a quantity of to these pages, gave the with the Great British Jazz cannabis, which Digby (a non- Celebrity Interview at Band, the Best of British Jazz indulger) then had to dispose Loughton Methodist Church (in which he replaced the of. in this, our 21st anniversary late, great Kenny Baker), the A less embarrassing year. Pizza Express All-Stars, and presentation followed, when In conversation with Archivist accompanying the inimitable Jane Hunter-Randall, on David Nathan, Digby revealed George Melly during the later behalf of the Trustees, gave that the Archive might never years of his career. He also Digby an engraved plaque , in have come into being, had he touched upon his period as a recognition of all he had not been a librarian before busy broadcaster with BBC done for the Archive over 21 becoming a professional radio. years, and for jazz in general. musician in 1977. It was while Those of us who knew Digby The evening concluded with working at Southend Library in his ‘flowing locks’ period a session of live music, in that he conceived the idea of could easily visualise the which Digby was joined by a collection of printed scene retailed in the star John Altman (soprano material related to jazz.The anecdote of the evening, in saxophone),Ted Beament project began to take shape which the proprietor of an (piano), Len Skeat (bass) and in 1988, when his former Indian restaurant mistook Bobby Worth (drums).
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