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                           The New Tishomingo Jazz Band

                                               second time around  2007 -

                 Way back in 1957, six schoolboys formed  a Traditional Jazz band to play New Orleans-based music, popularised by
                 the bands of Chris Barber and Ken Colyer in the UK, and George Lewis in the USA. A name was agreed, after a tune
                 called Tishomingo Blues.  Soon, a local Jazz Club was opened at the rear of the Bear & Key Hotel in Whitstable, and
                 regular weekly sessions were held for the next 5 years. Most Kent towns had a Jazz Club, and it was accepted that individual
                 bands would perform at these other venues from time to time. But as teenage culture changed in favour of Pop music,
                 some “Tish” members moved on to pastures new, and the Bear & Key club closed. In 2007, fifty years after the first band
                 was formed, a Reunion party was held in St. Mary’s Hall, Whitstable, attended by 150 guests, with Bill Barnacle’s Jazzband
                 providing the music. On hand were Dave Bone, Sean Maple, Roy Gaston, Doug Inkpen and Brian Higenbottam. All had
                 played in various Tishomingo combinations, so with local trumpeter Malcolm on lead, this miscellany played an interval set,
                with Hal Jones providing spoken lyrics to the signature Tishomingo Blues. The response was so enthusiastic, that leader
                Dave Bone felt that it was perhaps time to reform the “Tish”, so five of the best local “jazzers” were recruited, and the new
                band opened at the Bun Penny pub in Herne Bay on March 16th, 2007, to play once a month. Other residencies followed
                at the Riverside Restaurant, Canterbury, and the Office Bar in Folkestone until the band settled in a Whitstable venue, the
                Stables Bar of the Duke of Cumberland, a stone’s throw from the original Bear & Key Hotel!  Sessions ran until July, when
                the venue changed to the Cellar Bar of the Marine Hotel in Tankerton, where fans were entertained at monthly Club Nights
                until December, 2010.

                                                                Taken at the Louis Armstrong Sunday 25th January 2009
                             
                                                  L/R Dave Bone clt/leader, Harry Cook bass, Jimmy Tagford drs, Jackie Bowles,
                                                            Martyn Rawbone tmb, Malcolm Walton tpt and Ray Perkins piano.

                          
                                Taken at the Louis Armstrong, Dover, Kent                                and a private venue at the Golf Club, Whitstable, Kent.

                                                             
                                                        Dave Bone clarinet, Malcolm Walton trumpet and Martyn Rawbone trombone.        

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                   The Tish have released a new CD recorded at the New Eden Studio, St Edmund's Catholic School,
                Dover, Kent.   rec on the 22nd February 2011 - to purchase this CD or to book the New Tishomingo Band

                                          contact the management:
                                         Dave Bone on 01304 830 966  or mobile  07518 051 991

             here are three tracks from the CD to listen to

                                               Ostrich Walk             Black Bottom           Monochrome       

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                                 Also see the lads in video at their Bear and Key Jazzclub Reunion 2
                                                        at the Marine Hotel, Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent. 26th Oct 2007

                                                  
                                       As Long As I Live                                                          Ostrich  Walk                                                Struttin With Some Barbeque
                               

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