1 It’s been an exciting year here at Upbeat - we have bought the American jazz label Jazz Crusade which has over 130 titles of New Orleans and Traditional jazz, as you might have read in the jazz press. We haveNewsletter distributed the label 2015 in the UK for many years, but are delighted to have brought it under the Upbeat umbrella! On the practical side, we’ve made our on-line shop more user friendly and we’ve 2017 also added the option to pay via PayPal - I hope you will find this helpful! In addition, we have lots of new releases and special offers which we are sure you will enjoy! Here’s to 2017 - keep jazzin’! Liz Biddle JACK TEAGARDEN & EARL HINES ALL STARS in Concert at Manchester Free Trade Hall 1957 NEW! URCD258 1 CD £12.99 Jack Teagarden These rare recordings come from a UK tour made by this Earl Hines specially assembled group in October 1957, presented by The National Jazz Federation. With the obvious exception of Max All Stars In Concert Kaminsky, every musician had previously been a member of Manchester Free Louis Armstrong’s All Stars and the promoters thought they Trade Hall 1957 would appeal to the British public in the same way Satchmo himself had on his first post-war visit the previous year. The rapturous audience clearly loves it all. A valuable souvenir of a memorable occasion. URCD258 NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! KEN COLYER – Recently ROGER MARKS in RETROSPECT TERRY LIGHTFOOT IN KID THOMAS VALENTINE – Discovered Late Colyer – Marks Out Of Twenty RETROSPECT Same old Soupbone URCD271 1 CD £12.99 URCD270 1 CD £12.99 URCD269 1 CD £12.99 JCCD3001 1 CD £12.99 This live session features some of the Roger Marks has toured Britain and The second in our series celebrating Long awaited re-issue of this popular finest late Colyer where he fronts a Europe extensively for 25 years great British jazzmen. Originally favourite. What you hear on this talented line-up which reunited him with appearing repeatedly at the majority released as Stardust in 1990 this album will transport you back to a two key musicians from his ‘classic’ 50s of the jazz clubs and festivals. They CD shows why Terry’s name has bright, sunny day in October 1968 line-up: Ray Foxley and Colin Bowden. It have enjoyed great popularity with been synonymous with quality with Kid Thomas and his Algiers is also one of the few occasions where the public and critics alike, receiving of sound and presentation. The Stompers on top form. The music is he uses a tenor sax played by George generous air-play on BBC Radio. Here band’s versatility and wide range of vintage and the line-up perfect. The Berry, who blows fluent clarinet for the we present 16 terrific tracks across repertoire plus good arrangements Kid is joined by Louis Nelson, Manny rest of the gig. Ken himself is on inspired the genres of jazz including New & tight ensemble show this to be Paul, Charlie Hamilton, Joe ‘Twat’ creative form here. Orleans, Dixieland and Mainstream a band with fine soloists within its Butler and Sammy Penn. recorded between April 1990 to ranks! This CD is recommended for its February 2011 & including tracks eclectic range of tunes and vigorous from The Armada Jazz Band, The and very polished Traditional/ Mainstreamers and some rare duet Mainstream jazz performances. John collaborations. Keen Just Jazz. Order by phone 0843Order 658 by phone0856 0843 or online 658 0856 www.upbeatmailorder.co.uk or online www.upbeatmailorder.co.uk UpBeat Newsletter 2016 160911.indd 1 11/09/2016 09:24 2 LAKE CHRIS BARBER’S JAZZ BAND – Back in Berlin 1960 THE JAKE LEG JUG BAND – Everythin’s Jake LACD346 2 CDS £12.99 LACD340 1CD £12.99 ‘Barber In Berlin’ is one of the most popular albums in Chris With their good humour, attention to detail and varied Barber’s discography. Almost exactly a year later the band repertoire the JLJB have built up a considerable following was back in Berlin. No-one can remember the concert in just over two years. This is their second CD for LAKE and being recorded, but in 2015 a set of tapes appeared and it was their previous one (LACD330) which propelled them this is the resulting CD. The band is on cracking form with from obscurity to being very much in demand in both solo turns from all the favourites, Monty Sunshine, Pat NEW! Jazz Clubs and Folk Clubs the length and breadth of the Halcox, the leader himself and, of course, Ottilie Patterson. UK. Blues & Rhythm magazine said that their music had a “knockabout, good-time feel” which just about sums it up! NEW! REMEMBERING STEVE LANE OTTILIE PATTERSON – Blues Book and Beyond LACD347 1 CD £12.99 Steve Lane is one of the unsung heroes of British Traditional LACD296 1 CD £12.99 Jazz. Trumpeter Lane formed his first band in 1949 and remained doggedly loyal to the Classic style of Jazz typified The original album Blues Book & Beyond is classic blues, R by King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton in ‘n’ B material and a couple of her original compositions, the 1920s. Steve remained semi-professional all his life, enhanced with previously unreleased tracks - 4 from Ottilie but was highly respected as a mentor to many aspiring Jazz Swings the Irish EP - and 3 which had limited release. 23 musicians. In addition to playing Steve also ran three record tracks including Bad Spell Blues and Kansas City Blues. labels, VJM, Halcyon and Azure. This compilation includes NEW! tracks with the Southern Stompers and 5 tracks by the VJM Washboard Band. New Orleans to London & Back to the Delta – KEN ANDY SCHUMM & ENRICO TOMASSO - When Louis met Bix COLYER 1953-54 LACD345 1 CD £12.99 Reputedly there was a jam session which took place LACD209 1 CD £12.99 in 1928 when Louis Armstrong was passing through Classic Recordings from 1953 and 1954 featuring Chris Chicago and Bix Beiderbecke was playing there. They Barber, Monty Sunshine, Lonnie Donegan and Acker Bilk. met for an afterhours session. The two were then young Originally issued as LACD14 this re-issue includes the first men at the peak of their powers. We have imagined that UK issue of rare alternate ‘Delta’ sides. session and two of the world’s leading exponents of the styles - Enrico (Louis) and Andy (Bix) - come together to bring it alive with the help of other leading players of vintage Jazz, including ‘Spats’ Langham, Malcolm Sked NEW! and Nicholas D. Ball. This is ‘hot’ Jazz at its best! ALEX WELSH & FRIENDS REMEMBERING MONTY SUNSHINE LACD295 1 CD £12.99 The wonderful Alex Welsh Band and Alex’s friends are LACD344 2 CDS £12.99 guitarist Diz Disley, trombonist George Chisholm, singer Monty Sunshine was a British Trad great – he was in the Beryl Bryden and bass saxophonist Harry Gold. All legends legendary Crane River Jazz Band, in Ken Colyer’s first of British Jazz. The set is of previously unreleased ‘live’ Band and also in Chris Barber’s Jazz Band throughout the material and very well recorded. Several of the tunes Alex 1950s and was the soloist on Petite Fleur. He also ran his never recorded commercially. These recordings from 1958- own band from 1961 into the 2000s. This compilation 1960 find the band & friends on exceptionally fine form! has rare and previously unissued tracks alongside many commercially available tracks by Monty & features Ken Colyer, Chris Barber, Charlie Galbraith, Beryl Bryden and Johnny Parker. NEW! KEN COLYER 1957-58 Lonesome Road LACD267 2 CDS £12.99 FREDDIE RANDALL – BEFORE & AFTER A perennial favourite collection of significant recordings made by Ken Colyer in the years 1957 and 1958. Includes LACD343 1 CD £12.99 the rare Hamburg concert by the Jazzmen and Skiffle Group, Freddy Randall was one of the legends of British Jazz. A the EP ‘They All Played Ragtime’, the equally rare ‘live’ set fiery trumpeter who followed the Chicago/Dixieland route which was re-recorded as ‘Colyer Plays Standards’ and the and, until Alex Welsh established his band, led the finest only recording of the Omega Brass Band ever issued. band of its type in the UK. This CD comprises the last set of recordings he made with his own band in 1957 and a set recorded under the name of Britain’s Greatest Jazz Band in 1972. Both bands contained top class musicians and BRITISH TRADITIONAL JAZZ AT A TANGENT SERIES included on the CD are Dave Shepherd, George Chisholm, Brian Lemon, Al Gay, Pete Hodge, Gerry Salisbury, Kenny NEW! ALL SINGLE CDS @ £12.99 each OR LACD700 buy ALL 7 FOR £75 Baldock, Syd Boatman, Johnny Richardson and Buzz Green. OR LACD701 VOLUMES 1-4 FOR £44 LACD702 VOLUMES 5-7 FOR £33 BIX OFF THE RECORD – Recreations OF UNRECORDED LACD316 At A Tangent Volume 1 – Breaking London including The Gateway Jazz Band and the Mould – Christie Brothers Stompers, Kenny Archie Semple’s Capitol Jazzmen. LACD328 At PERFORMANCES Baker’s Half Dozen, Pat Hawes, Dave Berry, A Tangent Volume 5 – The Second Line – Bands Tony Coe & more. LACD317 At A Tangent that secured major record deals such as Mike LACD339 1 CD £12.99 Volume 2 – Trad Style – Diz Disley, Bruce Turner, Cotton, Gerry Brown, Avon Cities Jazz Band and Another in the Vintage Recording Project series - a CD of Alex Korner, The Temperance Seven, George more. LACD335 At A Tangent Volume 6 – The the music of Bix Beiderbecke - a look at the tunes we know Chisholm & more.