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Burtie has played with many musicians and different bands. Here is his hall of Fame of Cornet / Trumpet players
Bill Barnacle Bill Phelan Denny Ilett Dave Clennell Malcolm Walton Tony Pink Dave Link
Dennis Jenkins
Mick Stansell
Dave Ware
John Sheppard
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Dave Ware
- trumpet
Dave playing here with his regular band 'The Phoenix Dixieland Jazz Band'
I lived in a house where there was always music going on, my dad was a
cornet player in the Coldstream Guards, and my grandad, who lived with us,
was always playing jazz records on his HMV wind up gramophone. Dad sent me
for violin lessons, I took a couple of exams at Trinty College, but soon
switched to Trumpet. When I heard Wild Man Blues by Louis on Desert Island
Discs, I was hooked. Spent some time in the sixties playing soul, and
backed a few popsters of the day, including 6 months with Dusty, then got
hooked on modern jazz, and didn,t return to Dixie jazz until 1988 when I
answered an ad, and the Phoenix Dixieland Jazz Band was formed.Still with
them and depping for Burt and anyone else who,ll have me. Favourite
trumpeters are therefore varied, and apart from Louis, Clifford Brown,
Wild Bill Davison, Ruby Braaf, Roy Eldridge,Clark Terry, Miles Davis.
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John Sheppard - trumpet
John playing " Avalon " here with the Jazz Pilgrims at a Jazz
Picnic in Chislet John Sheppard - Trumpet. Born in Bristol December 1939. Moved to Chelsea, London with parents when 18 months old. So no recollection of Bristol at all. Lived in Chelsea with my parents until I got married in 1966 (England won the world cup). In 1956 a crowd of us liked the jazz revival music that we heard in London. So we formed a jazz band. I was told that the only instrument left unfilled was the trumpet. The clarinet player had an old London Taxi so we drove to Mitcham and I bought a Trumpet for £7-10s-0d from a friend. Thus we all started to try and play and it must have been dreadful. Eventually I had lessons from Phil Parker Snr in Dansey Place Piccadilly on Saturday mornings. I played in and around Chelsea and Fulham at pubs and clubs. When I got married we moved to East Molesey, Surrey in 1967. So then I met a whole new crowd of players and I just moved around from band to band. Bands like Colin Kingwell, Brian White, The Georgia JB and many others. But fame eluded me and in 2009 I moved to Bapchild in Kent and the 3rd cycle began all over again, new people and new bands.
The
Bill Barnacle Jazz Band Story 1979 - onwards
Bill had a great 80th Birthday bash at Cullins Yard, Dover,
Kent. 17th July 2007 - here are a few pics and a video
band members: Bill Barnacle crt, Sean maple tnb, Bruce
Roberts clt. Sadly Bill passed away on Tuesday 10th October 2017 at the grand old age of 90 years
and will be sadly missed by all who new him a great musician RIP
Mick Stansell - trumpet
Here is Mick's distinctive style
of playing on these three tracks taken from the CD recorded When I was 14 years old a school friend who was having piano lessons taught me how to read music. After listening to Winifred Attwell records I bought some sheet music and learned to play boogie-woogie and ragtime tunes on the piano. Shortly afterwards I saw a film featuring Pérez Prado playing ‘Cherry Blossom Pink’ and this inspired me to buy a trumpet. Our local general shop sold Dixieland records, including early American jazz played by the black Chicago and New Orleans musicians. When I heard the George Lewis Band that was the only music I wanted to play. My skills were honed at Bill Brunskill’s Sunday Clinic and the 51 Club ‘University’ where I saw the Ken Colyer Band. During this time I played alongside Sammy Rimington and Eric Webster among others and belonged to a New Orleans Parade Band. Having left London and moved to Rochester I first played with Neil Highley followed by Pete Lay’s Phœnix Band and a long spell with Sam Weller’s band. For the last 15 years I have been playing with the Syncopators Jazz Band. My tastes are much wider now but the New Orleans approach is at the core of my playing.
Here is a CD with Mick on Tenor Saxophone in the Hot Club idiom recorded at the 'The Eagle Tavern' Rochester, Kent. England in February 2002.
featuring:
Michael E. Stansell Tenor Saxophone click on the titles below to hear 'The Hot Club Five' Sweet Georgia Brown I'm Confessing Honeysuckle Rose Misty Crazy Rhythm
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Tom Brady - trumpet and vocals
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I learnt to play the cornet in the Faversham Gospel Mission Brass Band when I was 15, but having listened to the bands of Acker Bilk, Chris Barber and then Ken Colyer, soon realised that this was more the type of music that I wanted to play. So, I began to sit in with various bands in the Faversham and Canterbury area but it was particularly with the Eagle Jazzband with Norman Halliday and Frank and Charlie Webster that my listening was directed towards the New Orleans Revival and the trumpet styles of Bunk Johnson, Kid Howard, Elmer Talbert, Percy Humphrey and then later Kid Thomas and Dede Pierce. Once my teaching career began, jazz and the trumpet unfortunately seemed to get put aside whilst I developed a passion for classical music. This involved attending live concerts and I started to build up a large collection of particular recordings of many different types of repertoire. Playing classical music was not really an option but I was able to get involved by singing in various choirs and choral societies which I continue with to this day. Some years later, as I started to reduce my teaching commitments, I began to follow the jazz scene once again in the area, sitting in and deputising. At the moment, I play with the Vocalion Jazzband, and any other bands when required. |
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To go to Malcolms Blue Rhythm Kings website and gig dates and video at the
Bude Jazz Festival
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quote from Tony's website to the above pic: and the story of Tony's life from an early age
'standing at the bar was Roland Jones, the
manager of the Central Hall. I clocked him and elected to play one of our
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The above four videos were filmed at the 'Limberlost Caravan Park' Seasalter,
Kent 1995 so click on pictures or title to watch the videos
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