More Blasts from the past

teddy

Duckmeister
Nice selection Mike. Ruby Braff is generally underated in my opinion. I would be good to hear more of him.

teddy
 

OLDUDE

New member
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My very first 12" long play vinyl jazz disc - I eventually copied it to CD and still play it occasionally
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
This seemed an appropriate thread to bump for a bit of nostalgia do you remember the "Melody Maker" a weekly paper that in the 50s was intended for the Jazz fraternity I believe it later switched to pop and rock and finally disappeared but in those days it was our window into the world.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Combine that with AFN and radio Luxemburg what more could a young laddie want :cool:
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Voice of America for me, an an old Hallicrafter short wave radio like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_o1T9lMXo&index=21&list=PL-9zU02fFlPWNoChxi5MYh9W7454ObQy7
I started listening to it in a tent in Egypt, continued (but not in a tent) in Iraq and then Cyprus, a tour of the Middle East courtesy of the RAF. Helped by a Jazz club at RAF Habbaniya. On return to UK I was able to see quite a few of the groups and stars, I had heard on VOA, live in JATP 1958 and 1959 tours and other concerts in the Odeon New Street Birmingham, including Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Rich, Shelley Mann, Jimmy Juiffre and many others.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Which do you recon were the golden years for jazz in the UK for me they would have to be the 50s which is when I got interested.
 

Dorsetmike

Member
For me it carried on through the 60s and into the 70s, those were the years in which I saw George Shearing, MJQ, Oscar Peterson, once solo, once with Joe Pass, Acker Bilk, Chris Barber, Monty Sunshine, Terry Lightfoot, Kenny Ball, Nat Gonella, Dutch Swing College, The Glenn Miller orchestra under Buddy de Franco, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, Jacques Loussier, Don Lusher big band, and others less well known. I missed the Benny Goodman tours around '69/70. I saw Ted Heath in '54 before the RAF sent me to Egypt.

I count myself very lucky to have had the opportunity of seeing such greats performing live.
 
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