When Memphis Slim first visited Europe in 1960, he was already a twenty year veteran recording artist, with many US 78 rpm releases behind him and a very solid reputation leading small bands in the ...

Harry South may not be a household name in the UK, but among its jazz world of the 50s to the late 60s, it was held in very high esteem. Even when jazz fell into a sharp decline in the UK mainstream ...

Manchester Free Trade Hall was host to two concerts on Sunday October 21st 1962 . The shows were promoted by Stockport-based Paddy MacKiernan under the Jazz Unlimited banner and attracted a crowd of ...

Jazz; rock'n'roll; blues; music hall; guitar instrumentals; tin pan alley; rockabilly; dance band; soul; bo-lero; skiffle; trad; R&B; country; old-time; Broadway; doo-wop; folk; high school pop; ...

Latin rhythms have infiltrated every branch of popular music, but none has had such a wide ranging influence as the rumba. It is this rhythm, combined with the New Orleans second line beat, that ...

In a nation said to have 'never had it so good', Britain's jazzmen were certainly proving this to be so during 1958. Not yet drowned by rock and roll, jazz was the youth culture music of the ...

Soho 1961, you are an Internationalist! Of course there's the American music. Transatlantic baby! The nearest you can get though, is Soho and its West End jazz clubs. You can dream of hearing Roland ...