"He has charted fourteen Top 50 hit singles in the UK alone. All such releases were issued on the Pye record label. In 2001 Ball was part of the recording of an album on the Decca label. It featured Don Lusher, Acker Bilk, John Chilton and the Feetwarmers, John Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly, and was entitled ""British Jazz Legends Together"". Ball continued to tour until shortly before his death, his last scheduled concert being with Acker Bilk and Chris Barber at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 21 February 2013. He died at Basildon Hospital, Essex, where he was being"
"in 2016. Chilton is survived by three children and lived in London. John Chilton John James Chilton (16 July 1932 – 25 February 2016) was a British jazz trumpeter and writer. During the 1960s, he also worked with pop bands, including The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Escorts. Chilton was born in London to working class parents (his father was a musical hall comedian) and was evacuated to Northamptonshire, where he began playing the cornet at the age of 12. He switched to trumpet at 17 and after doing national service in the RAF (1950–1952) he formed his own jazz"
"John Chilton John James Chilton (16 July 1932 – 25 February 2016) was a British jazz trumpeter and writer. During the 1960s, he also worked with pop bands, including The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Escorts. Chilton was born in London to working class parents (his father was a musical hall comedian) and was evacuated to Northamptonshire, where he began playing the cornet at the age of 12. He switched to trumpet at 17 and after doing national service in the RAF (1950–1952) he formed his own jazz band, playing at Butlins in Skegness with a troupe that included comedian"
"across the country. Performances occasionally included a guest singer, or a collaboration with another band. During the 1990s the band toured with Helen Shapiro in a series of ""Humph and Helen"" concerts. They also featured in several Giants of British Jazz tours with Acker Bilk and George Melly and John Chilton's Feetwarmers. Lyttelton had a long established professional relationship with UK singer Elkie Brooks. After working together in the early 1960s they rekindled their working partnership in early 2000 with a series of sold-out and well-received concert performances. In late 2000, they played on the track ""Life in a Glasshouse"""
"such as Radio Dismuke and Swing Street Radio, continue to play his records. Jack Hylton also features regularly on the Manx Radio programme ""Sweet & Swing"", presented by Howard Caine. His 1930 recording of ""Happy Days Are Here Again"" was used during the closing credits of episode four of Ken Burns's documentary series, """"The Roosevelts"""". He was portrayed by Ted Robbins in the 2011 television film ""Eric and Ernie"". Jack Hylton Jack Hylton (born John Greenhalgh Hilton, 2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario. Hylton rose to prominence during the British"
"satirical film ""Smashing Time"". This period of his life is described in ""Owning Up"". He returned to jazz in the early 1970s with John Chilton's Feetwarmers, a partnership that ended in 2003. He later sang with Digby Fairweather's band. He released six albums in the 1970s including ""Nuts"" in 1972 and ""Son of Nuts"" the next year. He wrote a light column, ""Mellymobile"", in ""Punch"" magazine describing their tours. He was an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. George Melly was President of the BHA 1972-4, and was also an"
"of the essential jazz books"". His books on Coleman Hawkins and Louis Jordan both won Chilton the American Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Award for Historical Recorded Sound Research. Jazz magazine ""Down Beat"" called him ""a master of the craft of research"". The ""Jazz Rag"" described Chilton as ""one of the world's top jazz writers"". For his books on Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, he was given the freedom of New Orleans. In March 2007, Northway Books published his autobiography, ""Hot Jazz, Warm Feet"". John Chilton continued to play trumpet with the clarinetist Wally Fawkes in London until he died"
"Lyttelton (1978-1983), and in 1980 played with the Pizza Express All Stars and Benny Waters. He left Lyttelton's ensemble in 1983 and was a regular performer at festivals in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a sideman for Doc Cheatham, Jim Galloway, Buddy Tate, the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, the World's Greatest Jazz Band, Peanuts Hucko, Bent Persson, Bob Rosengarden, Stan Barker, Bob Wilber, Digby Fairweather, Pete Strange, and Keith Smith. Roy Williams (musician) Roy Williams (born March 7, 1937, Salford) is an English jazz trombonist. Williams learned piano as a youth; he didn't pick up trumpet until he"
"own theme music composed by Laurie Johnson: According to Alyn Shipton in 2012, ""Throughout the 70s and 80s, Peter [Clayton] became synonymous with jazz on BBC Radio."" In addition to playing jazz records, Clayton organised and presented live jazz recordings with studio audiences, with sets lasting about 30 minutes recorded at BBC's Maida Vale Studios in London during the week. Frequent artists included clarinetist Dave Shepherd and his quintet, pianist Colin Purbrook (1936–1999), pianist Brian Lemon and his octet, tenor saxophonist Danny Moss and his wife, vocalist Jeanie Lambe (born 1940), and trumpeter Kenny Baker. The Mike Westbrook Orchestra made"
"Milt Hinton Milton John Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), regarded as the Dean of jazz bass players, was an American double bassist and photographer. His nicknames included ""Sporty"" from his years in Chicago, ""Fump"" from his time on the road with Cab Calloway, and ""The Judge"" from the 1950s and beyond. Hinton was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the only child of Hilda Gertrude Robinson, whom he referred to as ""Titter,"" and Milton Dixon Hinton. He was three-months-old when his father left the family. He grew up in a home with his mother, his maternal grandmother (whom he"
"from the late 30s. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, he was part of a group led by George Chisholm that were regularly featured in the Black and White Minstrel Show, while continuing to freelance in various groups as well as with his own Palm House Trio. Winters continued to perform live in the 1980s and 90s often with trumpeter Digby Fairweather. In the 1990s he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. Tiny Winters Tiny Winters (Frederick Gittens, 24 January 1909 – 7 February 1996) was an English jazz bassist and vocalist who worked in the bands of"
"Dixielanders in January 1948 to form his own jazz band, Fawkes went with him and stayed with the band until 1956, by which time it had evolved from revivalism to mainstream jazz. This suited Fawkes, as his own bands from then on could be broadly described as mainstream. He has re-united with Lyttelton periodically ever since, and, though highly talented on his instrument, remains (in the best sense of the term) an ""amateur"". He has long admired Sidney Bechet and once recorded with him, as part of Lyttelton's band, in 1949. He played with George Melly and John Chilton in"
"Brandsma, Nick White and Ian Killoran (clarinets and alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax). John Watson (drums), John Day (double bass), Joe Farler (banjo & guitar) Pat Halcox, trumpeter with the Chris Barber Band since 31 May 1954, retired after playing his last gig with the Big Chris Barber Band on 16 July 2008. Halcox and Barber were together in the band for 54 years – the longest continuous partnership in the history of jazz, exceeding even that of Duke Ellington and Harry Carney (48 years between 1926 and 1974). Tony Carter (reeds) also left the band at this time."
"Appleton (1950), Humphrey Lyttleton (with whom he toured and recorded in 1952), Fela Sowande's BBC Ebony Club Band (1953) and Lonnie Donnegan, with whom he guested. He toured with Jack Parnell in the jazz revue ""Jazz Wagon"" (c.1954), accompanied Ella Fitzgerald at the Mars Bar in Paris and played at the London Palladium with the Ted Heath Orchestra. His broadcast career with the BBC lasted for 20 years; he was a familiar name in broadcasting, with frequent appearances on the BBC Light Programme, playing a huge range of styles. He composed songs with his wife, the lyricist and actress Elizabeth"
"were Dick Katz (piano) and Coleridge Goode (bass). When guitarist Caton moved on he was succeeded in turn by Laurie Deniz, Australian Don Fraser and Judd Proctor, who was a member of the quartet for 6 years from July 1955. Early in the ""Goon Show""'s run, there were many jokes linking Ellington to the African nation of Ghana, thus leading Ellington to say that he came from Ghana. Ellington's recording of ""The Madison"" reached No. 36 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1962. He was married to Anita West, who was to become the second female presenter of ""Blue"
"them at the White City Stadium, minutes before Ray's hospitalisation due to a drug overdose. Phil Palmer Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952, London, England) is a sideman and session guitarist in jazz and rock who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous famous artists. He is most renowned for his work on the slide guitar. Palmer has supported artists that include Lucio Battisti (album ""Una giornata uggiosa"", 1980), Pet Shop Boys, Wishbone Ash (1986 touring), Joan Armatrading, Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey, Iggy Pop, Scott Walker (""Track Three"", 1984), Thomas Anders (1989), Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Dire Straits (1992"
"John Ashton (musician) John Geza Ashton (born 30 November 1957) is an English musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer, with a career spanning more than 30 years. He is best known as the guitarist of the Psychedelic Furs. John Geza Ashton was born on 30 November 1957 in Whips Cross Hospital, Forest Gate, London, and lived in North Kilworth in south Leicestershire. Ashton came to prominence in the early 1980s as the guitarist of the Psychedelic Furs. The band is an English group formed in 1977 by Richard and Tim Butler, Duncan Kilburn and Roger Morris. Their first album release"
"with Sidney Bechet, Wilbur DeParis (1954–55), and Doc Cheatham. He worked with Eddie Durham and Eddie Barefield in the 1960s, and remained active almost up until his death, though he never recorded as a leader. Slick Jones Slick Jones (April 13, 1907 – November 2, 1969) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with Fats Waller. Born Wilmore Jones in Roanoke, Virginia, he worked with Fletcher Henderson from 1934 to 1936, then recorded and toured with Fats Waller from 1936 to 1941. Concomitantly he also appeared on record with Gene Sedric, Don Redman, Lionel Hampton, and Una"
"in the 1950s but left to form The J's with Jamie in 1958. From that point until the group disbanded in 1967, the core members were Jamie and her husband, Joe Silvia. They worked with session musicians and a number of other singers, most prominently Don Shelton, a tenor who was part of The Hi-Lo's, and Len Dressler, whose deep bass voice is best known for the Jolly Green Giant's ""Ho! Ho! Ho!"". Recounting the group's career years later, Jamie estimated the group recorded 25–30 commercials each week between 1958 and 1967. Their clients were as varied as the companies,"
"for his title role in ""The Gene Krupa Story"". Sheen later taught percussion at Five Towns College. He died of a heart attack at his home in Dix Hills on Long Island and there is an ongoing scholarship at Five Town College in his name for students of percussion. Mickey Sheen Mickey Sheen (born Milton Scheinblum, December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1987) was a jazz drummer known for swing and mainstream jazz. Sheen was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He married Marilyn Feinstein and had two sons – Neil and Brian Sheen. In the 1940s and 1950s Sheen"
"Ray Ellington Henry Pitts Brown (17 March 1916 – 27 February 1985), known professionally as Ray Ellington, was a popular English singer, drummer and bandleader. He is best known for his appearances on ""The Goon Show"" from 1951 to 1960. The Ray Ellington Quartet had a regular musical segment on the show, and Ellington also had a small speaking role in many episodes, often as a parodic African, Native American or Arab chieftain (but also often, with no attempt to change his normal accent, as a female secretary or a Scotsman). Ellington was born Henry Pitts Brown, at 155 Kennington"
"Tatum and Eddie South. He moved to New York City for a job in Cab Calloway’s orchestra in 1936. Hinton bought a home on 113th Avenue in Addisleigh Park in 1950. He lived in the neighborhood until his death in 2000. Saxophonist John Coltrane bought a home on Mexico Street in Addisleigh Park in the year 1959. Coltrane had just met tremendous critical success after his collaborations with Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. In January 1960, Coltrane released ""Giant Steps"", his first album with Atlantic Records. ""Giant Steps"" is considered to be the album that catapulted Coltrane into jazz legend."
"30 on the pop charts. Alan Freed, who had moved to the much larger market of New York City in 1954, helped the record become popular with white teenagers. Freed had been given part of the writers' credit by Chess in return for his promotional activities; a common practice at the time. In 1956, an R&B ""Top Stars of '56"" tour took place, with headliners Al Hibbler, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and Carl Perkins, whose ""Blue Suede Shoes"" was very popular with R&B music buyers. Some of the performers completing the bill were Chuck Berry, Cathy Carr, Shirley &"
"and released three albums. They officially broke up in 1992, but began playing enthusiastically attended reunion shows a few years later. With the dissolution of the Gear Daddies, the songwriter began making albums and performing with a band that would become known as Martin Zellar and The Hardways, including at various times Nick Ciola, Scott Wenum, Wilson Zellar, Jesse Duke, Luke Kramer, Whelan Keenan, Dan Neale, Adam Levy, Noah Levy, Jon Duncan, Marc Retish, Patrik Tanner, and Randy Broughten. In the late '90s, Zellar began singing with a Neil Diamond tribute band that remains popular into the present. Neil! includes"
"Lynn Seaton Lynn Seaton (born July 18, 1957 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a jazz bassist associated with bebop and swing. He has appeared on over 125 albums, including ""Nirvana"" by Bucky Pizzarelli, and the Grammy Award winning ""Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra"". He has also recorded as a leader on releases such as ""Bassman's Basement"" and ""Zoom Blewz"". He began with classical guitar, but switched to bass at age 9. He began his professional career after moving to Ohio with the Steve Schmidt Trio, and later he did a two-year world tour with the Count Basie Orchestra. He"
"lists Ella Fitzgerald and Debbie Harry, as well as Louis Armstrong and the crooners of the mid-20th century. For a time she was married to Mango Groove founder John Leyden. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Johnston was born in Bishops Stortford, a town in the Southern England county of Hertfordshire. Her family relocated to South Africa when she was age three. At the age of ten, she debuted as an actor, dancer, and singer in a Johannesburg production of the musical ""Annie"". At age 17, during her final year at Greenside High School, she joined the crossover band Mango"
"should sound!"" He left Dankworth's band in 1962, as the band itself was winding down. From here, he joined Humphrey Lyttelton's group, where he continued to hone his style for another two years. He then married jazz singer Jeanie Lambe, and the two moved from London to Sussex at her suggestion. Here, he formed his own quartet, playing a mix of club gigs, festival appearances and radio broadcasts for the BBC. He continued to tour with this quartet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, also playing and recording with high-profile singers like Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan and"
"Smith and Dick Morrissey, he was a founding member of Rocket 88, and later went on to join the Charlie Watts Big Band. John Picard (musician) John Francis Picard (born 17 May 1934 in Tottenham, London) is an English jazz trombonist. After serving in the RAF, during which he played at weekends with Cy Laurie, he spent a further four months with Laurie before joining Humphrey Lyttelton, from 1954 until 1961. From 1962 to the early 1970s he worked with Tony Coe as well as co-leading a quintet with Kathy Stobart in the late 1960s. From 1975 to 1973, he"
"the ""Team Straight"". Buddy Featherstonhaugh Rupert Edward Lee ""Buddy"" Featherstonhaugh (4 October 1909, Paris, France – 12 July 1976, London) was an English jazz saxophonist. Featherstonhaugh studied in Sussex, and had his first professional gig with Pat O'Malley in 1927. He was with Spike Hughes from 1930 to 1932, and toured England in Billy Mason's band behind Louis Armstrong that same year. In 1933 he recorded with a group called The Cosmopolitans, which included Fletcher Allen. He recorded with Valaida Snow in 1935 and Benny Carter in 1937. During World War II, he led a Royal Air Force band which"
"Smith's Hefty Jazz among others, and playing live with touring artists. He was appointed an OBE in 1984. In the mid-1990s, Chisholm retired from public life suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He died in December 1997, aged 82. George Chisholm (musician) George Chisholm OBE (29 March 1915 – 6 December 1997) was a Scottish jazz trombonist and vocalist. In the late 1930s he moved to London, where he played in dance bands led by Bert Ambrose and Teddy Joyce. He later recorded with jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller and Benny Carter during their visits to the U.K. In"
"be there to give them whatever I can."" The multifaceted relationship between the Hinton Estate and Oberlin College will ensure that Milt and Mona's legacy will be passed on to future generations. Milt Hinton Milton John Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), regarded as the Dean of jazz bass players, was an American double bassist and photographer. His nicknames included ""Sporty"" from his years in Chicago, ""Fump"" from his time on the road with Cab Calloway, and ""The Judge"" from the 1950s and beyond. Hinton was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the only child of Hilda Gertrude Robinson, whom"
"currently teaches at the University of North Texas. As leader Lynn Seaton Lynn Seaton (born July 18, 1957 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a jazz bassist associated with bebop and swing. He has appeared on over 125 albums, including ""Nirvana"" by Bucky Pizzarelli, and the Grammy Award winning ""Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra"". He has also recorded as a leader on releases such as ""Bassman's Basement"" and ""Zoom Blewz"". He began with classical guitar, but switched to bass at age 9. He began his professional career after moving to Ohio with the Steve Schmidt Trio, and later he did"
"Pete Phipps Peter William Phipps (born 5 August 1951 in Clapham, South London) is a rock drummer, singer and songwriter known for his work with Gary Glitter, The Glitter Band, and later Eurythmics, XTC and Denim. Phipps was a founder member of The Glitter Band (originally known as The Glittermen), who started as Gary Glitter's backing band, and went on to success in their own right, having six top ten singles in the UK in the mid-1970s. He was later a member of the band Random Hold, who toured with XTC in 1979, leading to him playing drums on the"