Jazz
Terry Lightfoot (cl, voc)
Dickie Hawdon (tp)
Roy Williams (tb, voc)
Wayne Chandler (bjo)
Vic Barton (bs)
John Richardson (dms)
Colin Bates (pno)
The Record Supervision collection. The original 'Lightfoot at Lansdowne' LP plus some singles. The band included Dickie Hawdon and Roy Williams.
The band that recorded the music we have was made up of Terry plus trumpeter Dickie Hawdon, Roy Williams on trombone, Wayne Chandler on banjo, Vic Barton on bass and John Richardson on drums, with Colin 'Barney' Bates being added on piano for the last thirteen tracks. Terry has always cited Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw as having influenced his clarinet playing and one can certainly hear that on these tracks, though I also seem to detect echoes of Sandy Brown's swooping phrasing here and there. - Mike Durham
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 |
