[Dixielandjazz] Des Bacon's Red Hot Syncopators

[trevor at tomasin.org.uk]

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Des Bacon's RED HOT SYNCOPATORS
Thursday 8 July 2004 - Clevedon Jazz Club

The Red Hot Syncopators who appear at Clevedon Jazz Club's regular Walton Park Hotel venue on Thursday 8 July capture the sounds and spectacle of the Roaring Twenties with their recreation of rhythms and style that made New Orleans music popular with fans in New York, Chicago and the rest of western society in the days of 'bad booze, flappers, jangled morals and wild weekends'. Prepare to be transported back in time to those heady days of the Charleston, Black Bottom and the Lindy Hop when Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson's bands laid down what we now call Classic Jazz. When the Big Band styles we know today had just been invented to revolutionise the sound of popular music!

Des Bacon is a local musician who has been a major part of the British traditional jazz scene since the 1950's when he played with Mike Daniels Delta Jazzmen. Locally he is well known leading the 10 piece Molten Swing and the Bourbon Street Paraders and the Red Hot Syncopators combine the best elements of both these established bands with flexibility and the delivery of tight, forceful, passionate and exciting arrangements. Their musical repertoire has wide appeal ranging from the serious students of jazz to the casual foot taper with tunes still popular today such as 'Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me' to classic gems as whistful as Ellington's 'Blues With A Feeling'.

The line up on Thursday 8th is expected to be Steve Graham on trumpet, Arthur Vincent and Des on reeds, Richard Willey on sousaphone and two faces well known to Clevedon Jazz Club audiences - Malcolm Hurrell on banjo and Roger Wells on Drums. Guesting with the band will be Penn Pengelly using his Eb metal clarinet to fine effect on the spirituals.

The doors open at 8pm, the music starts at 8.30pm and its £6 'on the door'. Further details of this and all other Clevedon Jazz Club events and Club membership - members get a substantial discount on admission charges! are available from Trev on 01275 343210, Bill on 01275 842151 or from the Club's web site www.clevedonjazzclub.co.uk


Trevor Tomasin
27 June 2004

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