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SO WHAT IS JAZZ ? Good to hear from you again, Nico. You obviously love your music and seem to be like me..in thinking 'who cares what label you stick on it as long as you enjoy it'. I think the purists who only like 'trad' jazz or whatever deny themselves some of the greatest musicians of all...

If it's jazz, especially original jazz, but whatever, keep plugging all you like Nico. In fact tell us more about Luna Velvet

As the Syncopaters syncopated... KIERA IS A HIT AT SINGING GRANDAD'S MUSIC Local teenage singer KIERA BATTERSBY was given an enthusiastic thumbs up from an audience of mainly senior citizens when she guested for Bank Street Syncopters and Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club last night. The...

Multi-talented Walmley teenager KIERA BATTERSBY will be on stage a short distance from her home next Wednesday (February 18) when she will prove that, along with all else, she's a rising star of the jazz world. The 17-year-old will be guesting for the Bank Street Syncopaters at Walmey Social...

What a thoroughly enjoyable night out at Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club last night! Baby Jools' All-Stars were on stage at Walmley Social Club and an audience of more than a hundred were there to appreciate every moment of it, and why wouldn't we? Six star musicians playing two hours of...

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Thanks to Journeyman Brummie for info about that excellent site...I'll be making use of it that's for sure. You'll see that Baby Jools is there listed as Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club...he's our next gig on Wednesday February 11. What a drummer he is and from the new wave of young jazz...

Thanks for the input, sospiri...I love the big band sound....I guess, if he's a Stan Kenton man, he plays Peanut Vendor, does he? By all means give the Brian Newton band a plug... they're helping to keep real music alive. Part of Birmingham's history, after all..

MILLENNIUM EAGLE, one of the popular regular bands at the Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club, gave a rousing performance at Jazz-a-Matazz in Coventry yesterday. Real Jazz and Real Ale: what an ideal way to spend a Sunday lunchtime. Matt Palmer, a versatile reeds man and one of the younger...

Thanks for that Wam. Great to know that live jazz from any era is alive and well. From looking at the link you provided I would say that the Birmingham Jazz Society is based on what some would call 'modern jazz' that progressed from the 1960s...more about great musicians such as Miles Davies...

We'd love to send a car for you Charlie...if only we had that sort of funding!!!!...all jazz/swing lovers are welcome at the Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz club so it's good to hear from you. Hopefully some jazz lovers from nearer to the Sutton/Walmley area will give it a try. No membership is...

I guess most of the modern drummers concentrate on the modern style of music, and no harm in that, but it's good to know that there are some younger guys who love the jazz of their fathers and grandfathers. Our band at Sutton Coldfield Jazz Club, Walmley, next Wednesday is led by Baby Joolz...

HAVING A DANCE...& ALL THAT JAZZ Since my post of yesterday I've been asked if there is dancing at Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club and the answer is that Walmley Social Club has a sizeable dance floor in front of the stage and many of the regulars enjoy a dance as much as we all love listening...

The warm responses received by Norfolk Brummie to the fascinating stories of his eminent years as a jazz/swing/dance band drummer of repute has set me wondering about just how many survivors there are of the early post-war Trad Jazz boom in Britain. Several have already recalled the Adam & Eve...

That one with pure white hair was George Huxley, reeds man mostly clarinet, he's had a most distinguished career and still plays regularly...sometimes where I go every Wednesday night to the wonderful Sutton Coldfield Trad Jazz Club at the Walmley Social club. Only a fiver at a great venue, no...

Old Brit...I've just discovered that you and Eddie are old buddies so forget my previous post...I have not been on this site for some months so was not aware of what had gone before. Eddie and I lived near each other and must have been in the same class at Golden Hillock Road School.

Sorry Old Brit...Norfolk Brummie is the retired Drummer with tales to tell...and my special taste in JAZZ is earlier....starting in New Orleans in the 1920s....you picked up my name because I asked NB to tell us about his playing in the Hollywood Bowl...good to hear from you though Old...

What a.life you've had Norfolk Brummie. I would love to hear about playing in the Hollywood Bowl...I'm an active jazz and swing man myself...I'll be interested in anything you can tell us.

Those were the days Carolina....I walk with two elbow crutches now because of spinal disorders. OH to be chasing after a football again..

The attached picture is the Birmingham Press football team of around 1955. We played the Birmingham Printers each Good Friday Morning at the Kynoch Ground, Witton. The timing was because, in those days, there were no papers on Good Friday, a holy day. This meant that those who worked on a...