British Traditional Jazz - At A Tangent Vol. 9 - The Mainstream Bands

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British Traditional Jazz - At A Tangent Vol. 9 - The Mainstream Bands

Fairweather-Brown All Stars, Sandy Brown's Jazz Band, Humphrey Lyttelton (trumpet), The Dill Jones Trio, Kenny Baker's Dozen, Kenny Baker's Ensemble, Kenny Baker's Half Dozen, Fat John's Band, The John Dankworth Seven, George Chisholm & His Jive Five

Release Date: 14th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: LACD359
Label: Lake Records
Length: 77 minutes

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Hefti, N: Scoot

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Fairweather-Brown All Stars

Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, James Mundy: Airmail Special

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Fairweather-Brown All Stars

Berlin, I: Russian Lullaby

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Sandy Brown's Jazz Band

Waller: Squeeze Me

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Sandy Brown's Jazz Band

Warren, H: September In The Rain

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Sandy Brown's Jazz Band

Humphrey Lyttelton: Do the Beaulieu

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Humphrey Lyttelton

Eddie James: New Saturday Jump

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Humphrey Lyttelton

Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges: Jeep's blues

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Humphrey Lyttelton

Shalom Secunda: Bei mir bist du schön

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Humphrey Lyttelton

Humphrey Lyttelton: Swingin' on the Gate

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Humphrey Lyttelton

Eddie De Lange, Irving Mills: Moonglow

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The Dill Jones Trio

Loring Nichols, Bobby Hamack: Bugler's Lament

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Kenny Baker's Dozen

Duke Ellington, Mercer Ellington: Time's A-Wastin'

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Kenny Baker's Ensemble

Kenny Baker: Act One, Scene One

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Kenny Baker's Half Dozen

Kenny Baker: Too Cool for the Blues

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Kenny Baker's Dozen

Fred Rose, Walter Hirsch: Deed I Do

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The Dill Jones Trio

Ernie Wilkins: Ghana

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Fat John's Band

Ray Bryant: Chicken 'n' Dumplings

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Fat John's Band

Art Blakey: The Themes

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Fat John's Band

Lane, B: I Hear Music

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The John Dankworth Seven

Dankworth: Leon Bismark

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The John Dankworth Seven

Earl Hines, Henri Woode: Rosetta

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George Chisholm & His Jive Five

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Vol. 9 in the AT A TANGENT series looks at Mainstream bands on the British Jazz scene and completes the CDs devoted to different styles in the series.

‘Mainstream’ was a term coined in the early 1950s to describe a more arranged style of Jazz sitting somewhere between Trad/Dixieland and Bebop/Modern - it is closely akin to Small Band Swing of the 1930s/40s.

The main protagonist in the UK is usually held to be Humphrey Lyttelton, but musicians like Kenny Baker and his associates had be playing it before Lyttelton embarked on it in the mid-50s.

The problem in compiling this collection is that there were very few working bands playing the style. The Jazz clubs of the 1950s and early 60s were very Trad. Bands such as Lyttelton’s and Fairweather-Brown ploughed very lonely furrows. It was a different matter with broadcasts and recordings where various aggregations fronted by Kenny Baker and sundry Lyttelton alumni got regular outings. As with most attempts to label music ‘Mainstream’ was inclined to be a bit blurred at the edges. To illustrate the point tracks by Beboppers such as John Dankworth and John Cox are included to show that they slot in without sounding out of place.

Several tracks are previously unissued and it is hoped that the CD serves as both an introduction to the style and explode some myths.

Promo and advertising in JUST JAZZ , JAZZ RAG, JAZZ GUIDE Promo copies to specialist Jazz and Nostalgia magazines, websites and Radio programmes.

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