[Dixielandjazz] Kenny Ball band

[Marek Boym]

The BBC Jazz Club was one of the first jazz programmes I heard in Israel
(after the IDF Waves Jazz Club, at the time the only Israeli jazz
programme, and, of course, the VoA Jazz Hour).  At the time it was not
compered by Humph.  I cannot recall the name of the announcer - my English
at the time was next to nil - but I remember the Mick Mulligan Band as one
of BBC Jazz Club's the most often featured bands, probably the reason it
has remained a favourite of mine all these years.
I remember Humph from The Best of Jazz (he also published a book under this
title) - another favourite, but that was much later.  In later years Digby
Fairweather took it over, but the broadcast moved to an hour when I
couldn't listen, and I know it mainly from tapes a Scottish friend
(residing in England) sent me over the years.
Cheers

On 17 August 2015 at 02:20, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> It is no insult to Kenny Ball to remember the BBC jazz club gig not quite
> fifty years ago (phew!) in which due to the indisposition of himself the
> gig proceeded with the compere putting his own trumpet between himself and
> a microphone. Everybody had a b.... looming good time....Perhaps the music
> fostered Kenny's recovery? The compere was of course Humphrey Lyttelton,
> and in exactly the sort of ad hoc situation which brought out his best!
> Robert R. Calder
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