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British jazz is a form of music derived from American jazz. It reached Britain through recordings and performers who visited the country while it was a relatively new genre, soon after the end of World War I. Jazz began to be played by British musicians from the 1930s and on a widespread basis in the 1940s, often within dance bands.
Pages in category "British jazz musicians" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Joe Armon-Jones; B.
Jazz 625 is a BBC jazz programme featuring performances by British and American musicians, first broadcast between April 1964 and August 1966. [1] It was created by Terry Henebery, a clarinetist recruited in 1963 as one of the new producers for BBC Two .
The action takes place in a single evening, during an anniversary party. The black-and-white film features performances by several prominent British jazz musicians—among them John Dankworth and Tubby Hayes—as well as the Americans Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus, who were in the UK in 1961 when filming took place and were recruited to ...
1960s in jazz: Music: 1960 in music: Standards: List of post-1950 jazz standards: ... 2 – Django Bates, British composer, pianist, multi-instrumentalist and band ...
Jazz at the Maltings was a weekly series on BBC 2 which featured some of the world's top jazz artists in concert at the Snape Maltings. The series, produced by Terry Henebury and directed by Vernon Lawrence was first aired in autumn 1968. It was introduced by jazz musician Benny Green. The show was completely missing from the archives until 2016.
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 ...
John James Chilton (16 July 1932 – 25 February 2016) was a British jazz trumpeter and writer. During the 1960s, he also worked with pop bands, including The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Escorts. He won a Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1983.