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Thanks Maurice...I'll give it a spin when the rugby's over!!!! Dennis

Yes, Eddie...lives in Sutton now, apparently but he said he came from Deptford originally...

That's right ,Maurice, the one fronted by the late Jill Dando..and lots of other stuff he told us about. Wonderful to have a guy of his calibre for a handful of people in a village hall.

Going off the pure 'jazz' thread here, but what an enjoyable musical evening in the 'touch-of-old-England' ambience of Maxstoke Village Hall last night. We were greeted by a small stage populated by SIX guitars, some audio technology and ONE stool. So how does that work: six guitars and one...

BURGESS, THE JELLY BEANS &THE BANJO MAN The oddly-named but multi-talented group of jazz musicans known as John Burgess's Jelly Beans Jazz Band deserved every one of the many rounds of applause that greeted their programme at Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club's weekly Wednesday night at the...

Shame you can't get to Walmley and join us...but pleased that you like to read about it..…you do get to some jazz though ...enjoy

You're right guilbert53...we see that mag regularly. The gigs from our club are listed in it. A very good job it does in publicising all the dates.

Hi Wam...yes I remember the link you posted and looking at it...as you rightly say, there's a lot of jazz, across the ages, going on in Birmingham and it caters for all sorts of different tastes...I could probably enjoy the modern/fusion stuff, myself, why not? I think that reason that the...

...you're helping plenty, Norfolk Brummie! just keeping the debate going about jazz anywhere in the country is good for the cause of keeping music from the 1920s onward 'alive and well'...and you must have played a thousand or more gigs in your time, Eddie...just as a couple of years back I...

Goodness me, Wam! Absolutely not. My hope when I started this thread was that enthusiasts who attend jazz, or have done in the past, would make contributions to the Thread. I'm 82 and disabled so my mobility is limited. I go to Sutton Jazz Club's gigs at Walmley every Wednesday night ( and...

Burgess, the Jelly Beans & The Banjo Man We're looking forward to seeing John Burgess' Jelly Bean Band Jazz Band at Walmley Social Club tomorrow (Wedy) night. Formerly The Nova Scotia Jazz Band sees the leader, top Scottish reeds man John Burgess, join forces with some of the cream of English...

...welcome on board 'Our Kid'...I'll put a post on line about it tomorrow. An interesting band....

Savannah's 'Jazz to stir the blood...' If there's any such thing as a 'jazz gene' then Savannah's versatile front man, Bill Smith (pictured), must have several of them in his musical make-up. As the evergreen, ever-entertaining band gave us a gig that kept us enthralled in the glittering concert...

Thanks for your responses, lads...I never expected to get proper musicians joining in the jazz chat...honoured, indeed...can't even play the paper and comb in tune myself... Those comments made in a previous post about Frog Island jazzmen having been together for over 50 years, playing music...

The sheer enduring qualities of jazz and its musicians never ceases to amaze. Take the latest gig at Jazz-a-Mattazz in Coventry. The Frog Island band has been together since it was formed by cornet player John Whitehead in 1962 and, remarkably, is still going strong under the same...

Not bad is it Eddie? Cost a few bob in petrol from where you live, though!!!

Phoenix Jazzmen entertained an attendance of more than a hundred of us at Walmley Social Club last night (Feb 25) simply doing what comes naturally. The band of talented, experienced, mostly local musicians, struck the happy medium between the Sutton Trad Jazz Club purists and those many...

Of course you have, Nico. All this is just a light-hearted exchange of views...jazz is what you make it and often just down to opinion...and yours is as valid as anyone's. The lucky ones (and I put myself down in that category) are those with a wide taste in music, and to heck with the labels...

I can't believe you played at the Masque Ballroom, in Walford Road, Eddie.. it was only about 300 yards from where you lived! I walked passed it hundreds of times but never actually went it. If I remember correctly there were bullet marks across the front of the building where a rogue German...

Re-the definition of 'jazz' which, as you say, was jass originally, in my Louis Armstrong book, written by an America professor of music, he writes thousands of words on the subject and the nearest he gets to explaining where the word came from is this. When commercial interests in New Orleans...