Ken Colyer & The First Traditional Jazz Band
BackLifted from an excellent TV documentary presented by George Melly. This bit of nostalgia gives the story behind the Ken Colyer Jazzmen and the Chris Barber Band. When as was our habit we visited the Burton Stone inn for a pint after band practice in Lumley Barracks just round the corner, we found some of the Chris Barber band doing a similar thing, during the interval while appearing at the Clifton Cinema, behind the pub. I remember Pat Halcox inspecting my trumpet which was near the bar in its case. He became a legend in his own lunchtime!
Channel: Music
Uploaded: May 30, 2007 at 11:43 am
Author: COLYERFAN
Length: 00:07:33
Rating: 4.64
Views: 19837
Tags: ken colyer jazzmen chris barber george melly trad jazz
Video Comments:
RobeGre (June 9, 2008 at 5:08 pm)
This is great. Thanks for posting this. It is impossible to say in just a few words quite what an inspiration Ken Colyer was, and not just to his own generation of fans but to those of us who heard him throughout the 70s and into his last decade.
skipjive (March 26, 2008 at 4:01 am)
I learnt to jive to fantastic music at the Crane River Jazz Club in Cranford Middlesex. Not realising I was witnessing the first Traditional Jazz Band created by Ken Collyer. Thanks Paul for teaching me to jive like a maniac!!!!
fangiobanjo (October 10, 2007 at 6:49 am)
Fantastic. The great man himself, in cheerful mood. Ken Colyer's music lives on. Thanks for posting this fascinating clip.
zelde025 (September 19, 2007 at 8:57 am)
Ken Colyer is one of the first cornet players I know who plays the typical Brittisch N.O.revival jazz in England and later on in the rest of the world.
Paulz.
Paulz.
skipjive (March 26, 2008 at 4:06 am)
I learnt to jive in a small hut in Cranford, Middlesex, it was called the Crane River Jazz Club. A lad Paul taught me how to jive like a maniac and the traditional jazz music must have been blaring out from Ken Collyer in his early days!!
careythefox (August 26, 2008 at 2:36 pm)
Where was the small hut in Cranford? I know Cranford quie well.
bcollinssc (September 5, 2007 at 5:42 pm)
I saw George in 1960 ish at the Royal Oak Dagenham,and again in St Ives Cornwall,where he was giving a lecture in late 1900's.He was a 1'off.RIP.
pearleking (July 31, 2007 at 12:50 pm)
There'll never be another.......
loftywheeldon (July 21, 2007 at 4:37 pm)
Lofty Wheeldon.i saw george in 1957 at the halcyon in Peterborough with mick Mulligans band.he just got better with age.r.I.P. george.
randycornhole (July 14, 2007 at 11:43 pm)
I was lucky enough to have seen George in the mid 70's. He left a lasting impression, even to this day...