Jazz
Terry Lightfoot (cl, voc)
Alan Elsdon (tp)
Phil Rhodes (tb)
Paddy Lightfoot (bjo)
Vic Barton (bs)
Jimmy Garforth (dms)
John Richardson (dms)
The Record Supervision Collection. The Lightfoot band at the height of the Trad era. Features Alan Elsdon on trumpet.
This is the second volume of Terry Lightfoot's Columbia recordings to be reissued on LAKE and covers four separate sessions made between September 1959 and July 1960, originally issued as two seven-inch 45rpm EPs and one twelve-inch 33 1/3 rpm LP. The sides are reissued here in the same order as the originals, and the personnel is constant across all four sessions, except for the drummer - Jimmy Garforth is on the first eight tracks, but gives way to Johnny Richardson on the remainder. Altogether, an excellent selection, with the last ten "live" tracks in particular providing us with as good an example of top-line British Traditional Jazz from the 1960's as we are ever likely to get. - 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 |
