[Dixielandjazz] Terry Lightfoot RIP

[Marek Boym]

Hi Martin,
At leat here, we are quite hip in British jazz, and yours truly is at
least partly to blame.  I am a friend of Mrs. Pasternak of Jazz at
88FM, and bring in all those British records.  Then she plays them on
the radio.  Moreover, having got into British jazz, she is on the
lookout for records while there; since she has a daughter and
grandchildren in Oxford, that means - quite often.  While most of the
bands featured do not hark back to the trad boom days (although Mick
Muligan or Cy Laurie do), she features lots of contemporary British
jazz on her programme (and when I say "jazz" I dont mean the Ronnie
Scots and the Tubby Hayeses of this world).
Cheers (havin good Israeli Trappist style 7.2% abv ale at the moment)

On 18 March 2013 00:35, Graham Martin <grahmartin at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Yes Gerard, that is sad news coming hard on the heels of the death of
> British jazz trumpet player Kenny Ball. Coincidentally Terry had a number
> of
> connections with Kenny Ball, in that Kenny was his trumpet player in the
> early years and then Terry played clarinet with Kenny's Jazzmen for a
> while
> in 1968. Also Terry's brother Paddy Lightfoot played banjo in Kenny's
> Jazzmen for many years as I mentioned in my post about Kenny's passing.
>
> This is a link to the Telegraph news about Terry:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9936081/Terry-Lightfoot.html
>
> Some of the names of the stars of the British Traditional Jazz era ("Trad
> Boom") of the mid-50's to mid-60's will be unfamiliar to many of the
> readers
> of this newsletter correspondence but they all contributed to raising jazz
> to the level of popular entertainment in Europe - something that did not
> occur in the United States, or Australia if it comes right down to it. Of
> course, we poms remain loyal to our roots. After the boom most of those
> trad
> stars played some very nice mainstream tinged jazz. That is the main
> reason
> that so many American 'hot' jazz musicians have been able to tour Europe
> with such great success right up to the present.
>
> Terry Lightfoot's original band was styled as a New Orleans band and
> certainly his early playing was very much in that vogue. However, his band
> always had a somewhat 'British' sound and my N.O.-playing mates would deny
> that he was ever very loyal to their style of jazz. I never had that
> problem
> with Terry and I always thought he was an accomplished jazz clarinet
> player.
>
> Terry Lightfoot perhaps did not have quite the same success as Barber,
> Ball
> and Bilk (The Three B's) but he was extremely popular around the local
> jazz
> clubs and I saw his band many, many times. Hey, even my favourite trombone
> player Roy Williams played in Terry's band. In fact, if I am not mistaken,
> this is Roy playing with Terry in the 1962 film "It's Trad Dad":
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjgVY2vQumU
>
> Further, in this set of more modern clips, Roy is again guesting with
> Terry:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTiLRYXYPIE
>
> Vale Terry. I remember you well and you did a fine job for jazz.
>
> Best,
>
> Grah
>
> Graham Martin
> REDLAND BAY, Queensland
> AUSTRALIA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerard Bielderman [mailto:gerard.bielderman at telfort.nl]
> Sent: Saturday, 16 March 2013 5:37 PM
> To: DJM List
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Terry Lightfoot RIP
>
> Just heard the news that British clarinet player and bandleader died
> yesterday, March 15, at the age of 76.
> Another of my British trad heroes gone....
>
> Gerard Bielderman
>
>
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