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

[Marek Boym]

Hello Jim, listmates,
While not a great Colyer fan - I find the freer style of Chris Barber
or Freddie Randall much more to my taste - I find describing Colyer as
a "relatively unknown jazz trumpeter" rather strange (I know it's not
your fault).
Colyer is worhipped by many to this day, and there is even a Ken
Colyer Trust and a Ken Colyer Trust Band in Britain.
cheers

On 04/03/2008, James O'Briant <jobriant at garlic.com> wrote:
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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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