<div dir="ltr"><div><div>How sad!<br></div>I remember him well - after leaving Bilk he had his own very hot band.<br></div>ay he rest in peace.<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2017 at 23:10, John Petters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdpetters@btinternet.com" target="_blank">jdpetters@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">Dear Friends,<br>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">Ken Sims RIP -
The jazz world has lost one of its hottest cornet players.</span><br style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">A major force on
the jazz scene since his days with the Acker Bilk Band in the
late 50s.</span><br style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">I met him in
about 1974. He helped me in those early years and was on my
first recording, "Red Hot Jazz", in 1977.</span><br style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">I subsequently
joined the Ken Sims Dixie Kings and played every Saturday at the
100 Club.</span><br style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">Ken was on
subsequent recordings with my various bands, including two
albums of Hymns and spirituals, Hoagy, the</span><span class="m_-2474648783339204733text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_-2474648783339204733Apple-converted-space"> </span>Old Music Master and
Goin' Bananas. We did a live session at the Old Dot Jazz house
in Cambridge and a session with George Webb at Old Harlow.<br>
During my days at the Square, Harlow, Ken was a regular guest,
often with his talented daughters, The Rhythm Girls and on one
occasion with Slim Gaillard and Al Casey.<br>
He was on many of my Riverboat Shuffles and most of my
festivals.<br>
We used rib him for his Scouse Patois, a special Simsian
language he used on stage.<br>
Of all the line-ups in which we collaborated, perhaps the most
exciting was with clarinettist, Dave Bailey.<br>
The two would just explode on stage, producing some of the
hottest jazz in which I've been involved.<br>
Ken loved King Oliver and always rose to the occasion when
teamed with Chez Chesterman and sometimes Cuff Billett in
recreations of the Creole Jazz Band.<br>
I send my sincere condolences to Chris and his family in this
sad time.<br>
May he rest in peace.<br>
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