Jazz
Terry Lightfoot (cl)
Paul Lacey (tp)
Ian Bateman (tm)
Andy Lawrence (st bs)
Tont Pitt (bj,gtr)
Richard Simmons (pn)
Johnny Richardson (dm.)
Special guest: Alan Gresty
This CD was born, not out of one isolated idea which I happened to have, but, as is so often the case, a number of constituent ideas, not all of them mine, that developed into one entity. My bass player, Andy Lawrence, and myself had been chuntering on for some time about putting together a band of hand-picked musicians, who we both admired, to play the music which my band of the late Fifties Traditional jazz revival and the early Sixties Trad boom had performed. The days when Traditional Jazz featured heavily in the charts, thousands of fans danced the night away at the Royal Albert hall and the Cavern in Liverpool was a Jazz Club!
Terry Lightfoot
Active Decade: '00s
Born: May 21, 1935 in Potters Bar, Middlesex, England
Genre: Jazz
Terry Lightfoot made his, professional debut as a bandleader in 1956, and since that time has established an international reputation as a clarinetist, saxophonist and vocalist of the highest calibre. He was prominent in the traditional jazz revival in Britain in the 1950''s and reached a much wider audience during the "Trad" boom of the early 1960''s. During this period, and in subsequent years, he has broadcast prolifically, both on radio and TV, recorded many albums, and appeared in the only movie to feature British jazz bands, "It''s Trad Dad!". In 1964, Terry made his first visit to the U.S.A. and played in New York at the legendary Eddie Condon club, and the following year toured Britain with the great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. He had previously met "Satch" in London in 1956, when he had the privilege of "jamming" with the man whose recordings first introduced him to jazz music as a teenager. During the course of his career, he has work |
