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These tracks
and photo's are archive Jazz in
the Kent and Sussex
venues,
in the early 60's to the early
90's, some of the pub's no
longer exist's , and many of
the muscians are sadly no longer
with us, so
come and enjoy the traditional
jazz that we played, heard and grew
up with
Burtie Butler
The Cavemens Jazz Band
The Tishomingo Jazz Band
The Tuxedo Jazz Band
The San jacinto Jazzmen
The John Kelk Jazz Band
The Chianti Jazz Group
Early Tony Pink Jazz men
The George Wooding Jazzmen
The Phoenix City Jazz Band
The Old Timers Jazz Band / The Original New
Orleans Jazz Band
This is one of the early recordings of Kent jazz,
In
the nineteen fifties the Granville Hotel in Ramsgate was unoccupied apart
from the ground floor bars and the ballroom. These were run by ballroom
dancing instructors Billy and Florrie Hamilton. In 1955 Chatham House sixth
former Peter Darby persuaded them to let out a cellar under the hotel as a
jazz club for ten bob a week. The teenage band and their friends put in a
cement floor, opened up the space by putting in a lintel between two rooms
and hung Chianti bottles with candles on the walls. All this was done with
a joint effort by students at local art colleges and various secondary
schools from Ramsgate. The original Cave jazz band comprised Steve Knight
(cornet), Arthur Robinson (soprano sax), Dave Corsby (clarinet), Dave Dagley
(trombone), Dave Brunwin (guitar), Mike Oliver (piano), Mick Shrubsole (tea
chest bass), John Dadds (drums) and Pete Darby (washboard and harmonica).
The club flourished and the personnel and the style and standard of the band
changed. The band became the Chianti Jazzmen appearing at the Coronation
Ballroom in Ramsgate often as an eight piece band opposite name big bands
such as Ted Heath. Several of the band became fully professional musicians
with trumpeter Al Smith joining Sid Phillips, pianist Mike Oliver joining
the Clyde Valley Stompers and guitarist Eric Flynn embarking on a tv and
film career
The
Cavemen's Jazzband in residence circa 1956, photo from the Dave Corsby
collection
Steve Knight
Dave Dagley
Dave Corsby Arthur Robinson
Mike Oliver Dave
Brunwin
cornet
trombone
clarinet
soprano
piano
guitar
Pete Darby
Mike Shrubsall
John Dadds
Washboard / Harm
Tea chest bass
drums
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so soak up the atmosphere of the late 50's and hear the lads playing:
When the Saints go marching in
cave band track was reprocessed from a direct cut 78 which emits blue powder
Dave Corsby
This was a wonderful presentation of Jazz put on at the Kings Hall, Herne
Bay, Kent on the
Saturday 17th September 1960 by, Vic Caira, president of the San
Jancinto Jazz Club. So
click on to the underlined titles of each band to relive the atmosphere at
the Kings Hall on that
great afternoon back in 1960.
Kings Hall circa the 30's but still
looks the same in 2006
CONCERT
....................................Commencing 2.30pm
DANCE.........................................Commencing
8.00pm
programme . . .
. . . .
. sixpence
intoductions to the bands were by Vic Caira, Clare Thomas and Rosalyn Young
WELCOME JAZZ LOVERS
Nowadays there is much discussion concerning different styles
and aspects of jazz that all to often
one cannot get to the hot music through the hot air.
One of the objects in presenting these five excellent Local
jazz Bands, all with their different styles,
that between them they practically retell the history of
small band jazz, is that this afternoon you may
for once sit back, relax, and enjoy them all, and then this
evening come and participate yourselves
by dancing to the happy music they create. When its all over
we would be very glad to receive one
sweet letter from you.
Stomp off, let's go,
Yours
VIC CAIRA,
PAM LAWS (now PAM CLAYSON)
President, San Jacinto Jazz Club
Secretary and Business Manager
The Tishomingo Jazz
Band
First formed in the Summer of 1955 the Tishomingo Jazz
Band became the resident band of the
Whitstable and Tankerton Jazz Club when this started
later on in the same year. Weekly sessions
were held every Wednesday at the Bear and Key Hotel in
Whitstable. These continued until 1959
when for a short while the club moved to the Duke of
Cumberland Hotel. The group now plays
regularly at the Cave Jazz Club in Ramsgate on
alternate Thursdays and Saturdays.
The Tishomingo Jazz Band circa 1960
photo from the Dave Bone collection
PERSONNEL
MAURICE HOVERY ROBIN WALKER
DAVE BONE
trumpet
trombone
clarinet/leader
ROY GASTON-WILLIAMS BRIAN HIGENBOTTAM JIM DAVIS
piano
banjo/guitar
double bass
possible Brian Askew playing at the concert
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BILL AMBRO
drums
click on to the titles to hear
Beale Street Blues Wolverine Blues Side-walk Blues
As Long as I Live Go Ghana Mood Indigo
Ole Man Mose Savoy Blues Panama
Another fine write-up from local Herne Bay historian Ralph
Carter, about the Tishomingo Jazz band, this
was in "The Times " issue Thursday 16th June 2005
Not the original Tishomingo but close, the occasion was Jean and Dave
Bones's 40th Wedding Aniversary
in their garden, High View Avenue, Herne Bay, Kent. date 2nd July 2000
Four standing left to Right: Séan Maple tmb, Roy Gaston-Williams
piano, Dave Bone clt/leader and Mo Hovery tpt
seated on left Bill Ambro drms and on the right Jim Davis bass.
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The Tuxedo Jazz Band
The start of the Tuxedo Jazz Band was the integration
of two jazz bands the Perdido Street Jazz Band
from Sittingbourne, Kent, and the Apex Jazz Band from Chatham.
The Perdido Street Jazz Band 1957 - 1958
Conservative Club, Milton Regis. 1958
band members:
Bill Wright tea chest bass, Roger Corden clt, Sos Sears drs,
Doug Waring tmb and Burtie Butler bnj
also Mick Rose tpt ( no photo )
in the very early years around 1954/55 the band played in the Crescent hall,
Crescent Street, Sittingbourne, Kent. and then at the Conservative Hall,
Milton Regis,
Sittingbourne, Kent. I think the entrance charge was 9d (about 4½p).
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Newspaper cutting 1958 in the local rag East Kent Gazette
The Apex Jazz Band 1957 - 1958
The Members of the Apex Jazz Band were:
Dave Hill tpt, Roger Griffin clt, Brian Nye bnj and Brian (Bugsy) Summers
bass
Brian (bugsy) Summers
Brian Nye
When we met up in Sittingbourne, we practised round a friend's house in
Albany Road
Sue Grandson, now Sue Knowles, the original Tuxedo Jazz band personnel was:
Dave "Jaik" Hill tpt, Dave Jarrett clt, Doug "Perc"
Waring tmb, Brian "Bugsy" Summers,
Robin "Burt" Butler and Bob "Sos" drums.
The band had personnel changes when Bernard Jack took over from Brian
Summers on bass,
then Gordon Hurley took over from Bernard Jack.
We had Dave Nicholls take over from Dave Jarrett on clarinet followed by
Pete Danby and finally
Dennis Lear.
Later Dave Chandler took over from Doug Waring on trombone, followed on
later by Sam Weller
then John Cooper took over from Burtie Butler and finally Roy Neal took over
from Sos Sears on drums.
Silent Movie
This has to be the earliest Silent video it was taken on a
super 8 camera
no sound, it was taken at Highfield House around 1960/62, the band members
are:
Dave Hill tpt, Bob Boorman tmb (picture), Jim Lewis clt
Burtie Butler bnj, Humphrey Mayes bass ( just see in the background) and Sos
Sears drms
so click on the picture to watch the movie
Sittingbourne Carnival 1956/57
Sittingbourne Carnival 1961/62
Bill Wright bass, Burtie Butler bnj, Sos Sears drms,
Sos Sears drms, Gorden Hurley bass, Burtie Butler bnj
Brian Preston, Jaik Hill tpt, David Jarrett clt
Pete Danby clt and Doug Waring tmb.
and Doug Waring tmb
Formed only ten months ago from two groups who
were disbanding, the Tuxedo Jazz Band is the
resident band of the Cedars Club in Sittingbourne, and part resident at
Highfield House, Maidstone
In July of this year 1960 the band appeared on independent
television and were awarded First
Prize
on the talent show " Home Grown " and this success earned them two further dates on I.T.V. which
have not yet been played.
Dave ' Jaik ' Hill
Doug Waring
Pete Danby
trumpet / leader
trombone
clarinet
Robin 'Burtie' Butler
Don Hurley
Bob 'Sos' Sears
banjo
double bass
drums
Southampton TV Studios
Collecting our cheque for the first heat £25
Collecting our cheque for £100 for winning the grand final
The Tuxedo Jazz Band taken
at Southampton TV Studio's circa 1960/61
Dave (Jaik) Hill
Doug Waring
Dave Nicholls
trumpet/leader
trombone
clarinet
(Sean Maple is on trombone)
Robin (Burtie) Butler Don Hurley Bob (Sos) Sears
banjo bass
drums
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Bourbon Street Parade Muskrat Ramble
PERSONNEL ON THE TWO RECORDINGS AT KINGS HALL HERNE BAY 1960
so click on titles to listen
Don Hurley in later years
Burtie Butler in later years
Above are
recollections of the Cedars Club that was very popular in the late 50's to
the early 60's of which the Tuxedo Band
was the resident band . In the picture above
right, from left to right: Fred Page double bass,
Dave Chandler trombone,
Dave a regular fan of the Tuxedos, Burtie Butler banjo on bended knee, Dennis Lear clarinet, Bob (sos) Sears
drums,
Doris Stagg proprietor, Shirley the barmaid
(not Yvonne Stagg as in
the article) and the two girls Susan Gawthorp and
Angela, nee Jenner who brought in the photo to the local newspaper The East Kent Gazette and Times Wednesday 26th
May
1999
Cedars Club Sos, Jaik, Burtie and Doug 1960
Burtie and Jaik with Kenny Ball and Vic Pitt
when they were playing at the Corn Exchange Jazz Club
on a Tuesday evening in February 1962
This picture taken at Highfield House, Maidstone, Kent
which was run by a Miss Julia Edwards who tragically
died in car accident, which drove off a ferry in Cornwall.
circa 1962/63 bass player Barry Forcette
Above two pictures are the Tuxedo Band around 1963 with new personnel taken
at the new Jazz Club
at the Wig and Gown, Maidstone, Kent.
from the Roy Neal photo collection
band members:
Denis Lear clt, John Cooper bnj, Roy Neal drms, Ray Manning piano/bass, Dave
Hill tpt and Sam Weller tmb.
(not Mannering)
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The San Jacinto Jazz Band
The San Jacinto Jazzmen grew from the humble origin of
a folk skiffle group in one of Herne Bay's
leading Youth Clubs. They first took up instruments to
play as a jazzband in 1958 and progressed
so well that they opened the San Jacinto Jazz Club in
February of 1959. The band features many
original numbers composed by its musicians which
have come extremely popular with the club
members. Many of these will be played here today.
A great poster from the Vic Caria collection circa 1961/62
The San Jacinto Jazz Band circa 1959 Vic Caira trumpet
from the Vic Caira
collection
PERSONNEL
GERRY RICKWOOD
trumpet PETE DANBY clarinet
SÉAN MAPLE
trombone
RON WOODWARD bass/leader RONNIE BLAKE guitar GEOFF SANDERS drums
Two great photo's taken from the Vic Caira collection of the San Jacinto
Jazz Band taken outside
the Kings Hall on the Saturday 17th September
click on to the titles to hear ( recorded Kings Hall, Herne Bay, Kent. Saturday 17th September 1960)
Policeman, Please Don't Tow My Car Away Pete's Regret Saturday Blues
A great write-up from Herne Bay historian Ralph Carter
recalling the late 50's and 60's in "The Times"
issued Thursday 3rd February 2005 , all about the San Jacinto Jazz Band
Just had an e-mail from Ron Woodward today 21st October 2006, he has just
got
married last Sunday 15th October ( my 66th birthday) to Carol, and sent me
this
photo of members of the San Jacinto Jazz Band 45yrs on:
Séan Maple tmb, Geoff Sanders drms, Ron Woodward bass, Vic Caira tpt, Ronnie
Blake gtr.
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The John Kelk Jazz Band
The resident band of the Canterbury Jazz Society. This
band was formed as long ago as 1950 to
play New Orleans Jazz it is renowned for the purity of
it's music and it's refusal to be diverted by
modern trends or popular sounds in jazz.. Besides
having played in most of the jazz clubs in East
Kent the Band is in great demand for street parades
such as the Hastings Jazz Festival as Brass
Band Jazz is a speciality. The rags and marches
presented today will recall the purist form of
instrumental jazz , the music of the legendary Buddy
Bolden who led his band through the streets of
the Crescent City in the early part of this century.
The John Kelk Jazz Band taken at the Marlow Theatre circa 1960
The John Kelk Jazz Band,
but with Mark Alexander on trumpet instead of Barry Campbell
taken at the Canterbury Jazz Club in the early 60's
picture's from the Mark Alexander collection
PERSONNEL
Barry
Campbell
Norman Halliday
Ted Chappell
trumpet/leader clarinet trombone
John Kelk
Bill Cole Cliff Elvidge
banjo
double bass
drums
Young Mark 16yrs old 1958
Mark Alexander trumpet and drums
