Dixie and Trad.

[JHC]

My new CD player has been a disaster despite being a very good brand it has been repaired then replaced but not fixed now waiting for another one with the latest mods in the meantime I am reduced to either my mp3 player or some of my old vinyl.

The ones that got me a bit excited were the old vinyl jazz ones Mick Mulligan and George Melly Jimmy McPartland some early Acker Bilk etc etc so I thought I would try a thread for Dixie and Brit trad jazz I wonder how many of you remember this era.

Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band-Savoy Blues

Jimmy McPartland ---Original Dixieland Onestep.

 

[Dorsetmike]

I saw quite a few, Nat Gonella, Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Terry Lightfoot, and listened to others, Ken Colyer I would have liked to see but never made it. I was also into modern Jazz and saw some of the JATP tours in the late 1950s, Ella, Shelley Manne, Jimmy Giuffre among others, in later years I also saw Shearing, MJQ, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Ellington, Basie, Herman and the reformed Miller orchestra.

I can still listen to and enjoy all the above and others that never made it to these shores.

 

[JHC]

The 50's saw the revival of Dixie in the UK and a lot of jazz clubs were started with amateur bands and I know that some of the players from that time are still going I have seen the odd clip on Youtube unfortunately a lot of them kicked the bucket. but they were good times.

 

[gord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRKWMOKt5Yw
kid ory,this is nice Dixieland.

 

[JHC]

It's great jazz gord the old stuff takes me back to my teen years do you still have trad clubs in the UK?

 

[Dorsetmike]

There's quite a few trad bands still around, so I guess that's a yes Colin. (Gord's quite a bit further west and north of UK in one of the other colonies):smirk:

 

[JHC]

Actually I have stumbled on a web site that has an thread/article on one of the bands that I played with when I first got started they have had a name change but still have some of the original players shoot they do look old I will try to get in touch with them.

 

[KMB]

The Red Hot Jazz Archive (www.redhotjazz.com) has some great early recordings.

 

[JHC]

Hi KMB, that's a good web site will play around with it thanks.