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Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, [1] based on the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz style. Prominent English trad jazz musicians such as Chris Barber , Freddy Randall , Acker Bilk , Kenny Ball , Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine [ 1 ] performed a ...
Laurie was a leading figure in the post 1945 trad jazz boom in the UK. [2] He ran his own club in Great Windmill Street, Soho, London from 1951 and headed a seven-member ensemble; [1] sidemen in this group included Chris Barber, Alan Elsdon, Al Fairweather, Graham Stewart and Colin Smith.
Trad Jazz is an Australian television series which aired in 1962 on ATN-7 in Sydney, HSV-7 in Melbourne, and possibly other stations (note: this was before the "official" creation of the Seven Network). Hosted by Graeme Bell, it was a music series with trad jazz music.
Richford started his trad jazz band in July 1961, [1] [12] [13] which debuted in Coventry. [14] [15] [16] A week later, the boozy London Jazzmen played on a riverboat near Liege for Belgian TV. [13]
Terence Lightfoot (21 May 1935 – 15 March 2013) [1] was a British jazz clarinettist and bandleader, and together with Chris Barber, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball was one of the leading members of the trad jazz generation of British jazzmen.
It's Trad, Dad! (U.S. title: Ring-A-Ding Rhythm) is a 1962 British musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester in his feature directorial debut. [3] It stars singer and actress Helen Shapiro alongside Craig Douglas, John Leyton, the Brook Brothers, and Chubby Checker, among other rock-and-roll singers, as well as several Dixieland jazz bands. [4]
British skiffle grew out of the developing post-war British jazz scene, which saw a move away from swing music and towards trad jazz. [1] Among these bands were Bill Bailey Skiffle Group and Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, a band formed by Chris Barber. Lonnie Donegan played banjo for the Jazzmen, and also performed skiffle music during intervals.
Skip jive is a British dance, descended from the jazz dances of the 1930s and 1940s jive and ultimately from the Lindy Hop.Danced to trad jazz music, it was popular in England in the 1950s and 1960s in jazz clubs in London; notably Jazzshows (now the 100 Club, 100 Oxford St) and the Ken Colyer Club (Studio 51 Gt Newport St., now closed).