[Dixielandjazz] Kenny Ball band

[Bert]

I saw Kenny's very last concert in Germany.
He was an old and ill man at the time.What was fascinating is,  how he tranformed in a happy, energetic entertainer, the minute he entered the stage. 
Afterwards I happened to be in the same elevator, and he was very tired. But a kind man.
Cheers,
Bert
> 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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