Ken Colyer
As one of England's leading trad jazz exponents, Ken Colyer's influence would have been confined to his own country were it not for a spin-off that would inadvertently lead to great changes in the music world at large. Self-taught on trumpet and guitar, Colyer was a founding member of the Crane River Jazz Band (1949 to 1953), a New Orleans-styled band that he left in late 1951 in order to join the Merchant Marines with the intention of shipping out to New Orleans itself and jamming with local legends. Upon his return to England in March 1953, Colyer joined a group founded by Monty Sunshine and Chris Barber that soon became Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. As in the Crane River group, Colyer's shows included a "band within a band" segment that purported to educate audiences about the roots of jazz, playing a guitar-based, highly rhythmic mutation of American folk music that became known as skiffle. When Colyer left the Jazzmen in 1954, the group coalesced around Barber and its banjo player, Lonnie Donegan, who went on to have a hit skiffle record "Rock Island Line" that caught the imagination of a Liverpool youngster named John Lennon. Beginning in 1954, Colyer split his time between leading trad jazz groups as a trumpeter and skiffle groups as a guitarist, recording frequently for English Decca. Colyer's melodic Bunk Johnson-influenced lead trumpet gave his jazz bands a distinctive flavor of their own, while his skiffle groups had a "Blacker" sound than those of most English skifflers, grounded in the Leadbelly 78s that Colyer brought back from New York when he was 19. Colyer's jazz band of the mid-'50s rivaled Barber's group as the leading British trad band of the day, featuring such sidemen as Acker Bilk, Ian Wheeler, and Mac Duncan. Colyer would lead bands in the '60s and '70s with time-out for bouts with illness, running his own KC record label, appearing at his own club Studio 11, and returning in the early '80s at the helm of the All-Star Jazzmen.
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The Very Best Of
Jazz - Paru chez Master Classics Records le 1 oct. 2009
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Milestones of Legends - Trad Jazz, Vol. 3
Jazz - Paru chez Documents 2 le 10 févr. 2017
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Ken Colyer's Jazzmen and Skiffle Group
Schlager - Paru chez and more bears Richard Weize le 2 mars 2018
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Manchester Free Trade Hall Concert 1957 - Rehearsal and Opening Half (Live)
Jazz - Paru chez 504 le 1 janv. 1995
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Reunited (Live at the 100 Club) (Live)
Jazz - Paru chez Upbeat Jazz le 10 mars 2017
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Ken in Hamburg (Live)
Ken Colyer, Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group
Dixieland - Paru chez Music Manager le 7 févr. 2022
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Club Session with Colyer
Dixieland - Paru chez Music Manager le 7 févr. 2022
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Darkness on The Delta
Jazz - Paru chez 1201 MUSIC le 31 déc. 1986
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Ken Colyer 1957-58 Lonesome Road
Ken Colyer, Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group, Ken Colyer's Omega Brass Band
Jazz contemporain - Paru chez Lake Records le 9 févr. 2009
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New Orleans to London (10 Inch Album of 1953)
Pop - Paru chez British Jazz le 31 juill. 2020
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Ken Colyer's Jazzman Live at Manchester Free Trade Hall 1959 (Live)
Jazz - Paru chez Upbeat Jazz le 14 mai 2020
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Serenading Auntie
Jazz - Paru chez Upbeat Jazz le 21 juill. 2008
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Live in Germany 1959 (Live)
Jazz - Paru chez 504 le 1 janv. 1998
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