Author: beejay
Date: 2003-11-29 22:34
Mark,
What you say is quite correct, but I have to correct you on a detail. The jazz revival started in the 1950s, not the 1960s. I know, because I was a small part of it, and I played in a traditional jazz group from 1957 to 1960. The first record I bought was a 45 single of Chris Barber's band playing Bobby Shafto -- the clarinetist was Monty Sunshine, if I remember right. Some of the big influences were the Crane River jazz band of the early 1950s, and the Ken Colyer jazz band. Colyer, so the story went, had jumped ship in New Orleans and brought back the authentic style. One of the big transatlantic influences was George Lewis, who came to England at least once or twice during the 1950s.
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