[Dixielandjazz] FW: [BRASS-BAND] Music Club - BBC Radio2 - Ken Colyer, jazz trumpeter. Today 2233 - 2330

[James O'Briant]

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Subject: [BRASS-BAND] Music Club - BBC Radio2 - Ken Colyer, jazz trumpeter.
Today 2233 - 2330

Ken Colyer - He Knew  Tuesday 4 March  2233 - 2330

Billy Bragg investigates the history and importance of the music that
pre-dated Rock 'n' Roll, focusing specifically on it's driving force, the
relatively unknown jazz trumpeter called Ken Colyer.

Colyer, was a musical evangelist who joined the Merchant Navy not to see the
world, but to see one specific part of it: New Orleans. 

After jumping ship in Alabama, he immersed himself in the jazz scene,
playing with the greats of the day. 

British jazz players waited eagerly for him to return, desperate to pick up
what he had learnt. 

Among those waiting was jazz banjo player Lonnie Donegan.

Initially Donegan took on Colyer's techniques, but within a few years he
shook off the shackles of the jazz scene to embrace the world of showbiz and
skiffle music.

This programme examines the influence of "three-chord skiffle" on some of
the great names of British music.
Without skiffle, artists ranging from The Beatles to Pete Townshend to
Martin Carthy would never have picked up a guitar. 

Bragg, armed with improvised washboard, also joins skiffle fan Richard
Hawley to play a skiffle classic and discusses British rock music's debt to
Donegan and to Ken Colyer before him. 

Contributors to this programme include: Pete Townshend, Richard Hawley, Ken
Colyer's nephew Martin and Lonnie Donegan's son Peter. . .





 
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