What IS it about
trad jazz that makes it the most profoundly inane music known to man?
It began as a real ale pub hosting
trad jazz nights, before becoming a live rock music venue.
This coming week alone sees The NC Big Band at The Whittington, Kinver on Monday, The Old Comrades at Perry Hill Tavern Quinton on Tuesday, the legendary George Huxley at Sutton Cold field
Trad Jazz Club, Sutton Cold field Town FC, Coles Lane on Wednesday and Out Of The Blue at Bear wood Corks on Thursday.
TRAD JAZZ: The Silver Leaf Jazz Band is coming back
To see and hear the Bonzos once again is to step back in time to a gentler, more innocent age where vaudeville,
trad jazz and rock was melded with inventive stage gadgets and wit which, like the Pythons in the comedy sphere, pricked holes in a puffed-up British establishment that took itself far too seriously.
Here, he goes one step further, adding R&B,
trad jazz and rock guitar into the Dixieland mix with guests such as Van Morrison (Midnight Cannonball and Backwater Blues), Jacqui Dankworth (Let's Call the Whole Thing Off) and the Swingle Singers!
The carpets may be worn, the woodwork chipped and it would give any interior decorator the vapours, but nobody cares ( the place is packed every night and the crack is tremendous (there is live
trad jazz each night).
Let's hear it therefore for, among many others, The Harp Hotel in Albrighton (jazz every Sunday lunchtime), Pizza Express in Stourbridge (Tuesdays), The Sports Connection at Ryton-on-Dunsmore (Wednesdays), Burton
Trad Jazz Club at Burton on Trent, and Bearwood Corks Club in Bearwood (Thursdays), and Club Be.Bop at the Moseley Arms in Digbeth (Fridays).
Trad jazz fans can see John Crocker, clarinettist with Chris Barber's band, guesting with the River City Jazzmen at Gateshead Fell Cricket Club in Low Fell next Friday.
WHEN THE SAINTS: A
trad jazz play at the funeral of Wirral jazz musician Bruce Bakewell, right
The guys had toyed with mouth-organ bands and accordion bands, but they all knew that
Trad jazz was what they wanted to play.
On both occasions they will be serving up their usual swinging sounds with a main course that is pure
trad jazz.