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Video of
The Month - Another video recommended this time by Alan
Jeffs
- Just Jazz - The magazine for
serious traditional jazzers
- Wants & Sales Page - A Rath
R12 Custom trombone
- The Saints Jazz Band - Reproduced
from Just Jazz Magazine
-
Remembering - Musicians
leaving us - latest : Paul Medina,
Derek Vaux,
Martin Bennett
- Deps Available
- Currently updating with the help of Annie Cousins
- Donation - For those who wish to
donate towards running costs
- Pen Portraits - read about your local musicians and jazz promoters
- Potteries - Freddie Wilcox,
George Williams and Jazz in the Potteries
- Traditional Jazz in the NW - The
story behind the videos
- My first computer - Start of a
hobby that led to the creation of this web site
- Public Liability Insurance for Bands
- Web site address correction for Amband
- An honourable letter - Terry
Birkenhead sends a surprise letter
- Wild Bill & Me - Terry Birkinhead
tells of when they met.
- Terry Birkinhead - Tribute to a
retiring Parade Marshal
- Discussion Pages - latest =
Can a traditional jazz band be 'too
serious'
- The Show must go on - A night to
be remembered for Savannah Jazz Band
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Focus on Ian Royle - From a selection of classic
recordings in the days of VHS & Betamax
- Whatever Happened To
- latest - Harlem Hot Stompers
- Ancient & Modern, when does a
traditional jazz band become too modern?
- George Lewis in the UK - A
personal account with photographs from Phil Buckley
- Reminiscing -
Latest addition, The Jackson Bradshaw
Band pictures
- NW Jazz Musicians - All present for the
funeral of Frank Caunce
- Andrew Liddle writes
... About jazz musicians, promoters and venues
- Name the banjo player - Not as
easy as you might think
- Web Site Support - Do you want
to help support this site
- Souvenir Photos - Sent in by
Keith Wadeson
- The Saint's Fred Fydley - by his
daughter Carol
- Looking After The Legends - A
series of article in Just Jazz by the late Dave Donohoe
- The Lost Tapes & Recordings -
Uploaded following a clearout/discovery
- 50 years of Marching - The Red
Rose New Orleans Brass Band
- A guide to using Google Drive to
store and/or share your music collection
- Curly’s Retirement, The Rivercity Jazzmen
- From Russia with Love - A true
anonymous story
- In Defence of The Banjo - An
article by NW musician, the late Geoff Walker
- Jazz Quizzes - Something to help
pass the hours away during Coronavirus
- Jazz Promoters - Get to know
more about the people who make it happen
- Lockdown Photographs - Archive
Photographs several have arrived
- Jazz Survey Results - Where will
I go after lockdown? What will I do?
- The Long Road Journey with Bob
Burns and his Saxophone
- My First Musical Instrument - A
place to tell us about yours
- Guest Musicians With North West Bands
- Brian Legan - latest 'Milton Batiste'
- Tom Culbert - My Life
in Jazz (1962-2019)
- Limerick - Budding poets writing
limerick lines, don't call us, we'll call you
- Influences. The people who influenced
today's musicians
- Who is who? Can you add
names to this picture
- Flee as a bird to the
mountain A BBC play we can all relate to I'm sure
- Videos on YouTube and
elsewhere - latest -
videos uploaded by Graham Martindale
- A Medley for Lockdown - Well
known NW pianist Derek Harrison entertains.
- Trevor & Phil remember their
time with the Blue Magnolia Jass orchestra
- Memories of VE Day 1995 Sent in by
Sam Wood.
- Spotlight on an ex-pat - Bert Thompson from Dundee
- Sketches of NW musicians from the 60s &
70s (Updated) sent in by Tony Babington
- Sheila Collier - Portrait of a
Muaician
- Savannah @ 40 - The 40 years of
The Savannah Jazz Band
- Nostalgia - Some membership
cards and programmes from past times
- 9 Rare & Classic CDs - Coming up
soon as part of Fred's clearout
- What they said - About the Crane
River Jazz Band
- 40 years of Savannah - The band
celebrates their 40th Anniversary
- Remembering the old Jazz Clubs
-
Alan Pearce sends in his old membership cards
- ODJB came to the UK - The late
Pete Vickers' tries to track down press coverage in 1919
- In aid of the Alzheimers Soc.
- A couple of CDs by buskers Higham & Hogarth
- The Best CD I ever Bought - Let
me know which is your favourite
- Alex Clarke - The life story of
an 18 year old musician!
- The daft things punters say -
From an idea by Ian Royle
- Early Jazz in the UK - Peter
Vickers digs into the newspaper archives
- Zenith 6.
A somewhat amusing press cutting
- Memories -
One man's memory of a life of work and jazz, it all
started in Preston
- Doom & Gloom - Now on it's 8th
revival
- Donate your record collections -
to The National Jazz Archive
- A Key Aspect of
Singing - Why is it that some of the best are
called Sue
- Lost & Found - The hunt for Carl
Thompson
- Showbands & All The Jazz - An
autobiography by Des Hopjins
- Sue Reid on CD - A super CD for
only £5. Take a listen
- Cornet Player wanted - Beginner
welcome. Ormskirk/Southport/Preston area
- Mart's Party
- Mart Rodger's 70th Birthday plus an interview just before his
80th
- King of New Orleans - Ron
Cassidy’s latest book
- Net Coincidence -
Interesting things that happen on the net, jazz and other
things
- The Mad Blower - a humorous
account of music by the seaside by Ian Royle
- Barber-Colyer split - Barrie
Marshall finds articles in Melody Maker 22/05/1954
- Just another gig - A journey home
through the floods of Cumbria 2015
- Panama Jazzband at 60 - A history
of the Original Panama Jazz Band
- Jazz Guide - Subscribe to
the UK's best "What's On" Traditional Jazz Mag.
- Jenks's Paintings - Some familiar
portraits of friends in the jazz world
- Jazz
Jottings- Some inspired thinking from John Muskett
- Around the N.W. Jazz
Clubs - A series of jaunts, by Dr. Andrew Liddle
- Bio Discographies -
Those OTHER New Orleans Musicians by Brian Legan
- Lou Levy Band - With Freddie Moore at 79 years of age
- The Hotspur What's it got to do with jazz? Check it out.
- Nat's Trumpet & Clarinet - Derek Brown
& Nick Balmforth with two stories
- Doctor Jazz
- A poem by Nick Balmforth
- Cork Jazzfest 1994 - Some
clips by Graham Martindale (updated 15/10/12)
- Politically Incorrect Lyrics -
Ian Royle starts a thread of lyrics that can cause problems
- RAF Padgate - Were you there? Did you play in the band?
- The Story of New
Orleans - A new book by Manchester's Ron Cassidy
- OKOM - What does it
mean to you?
- Skiffle - Was it
part of the jazz scene?
- Gobsmacked! -
Sue Parish take time out to recognise the work done on this site
- The Jitterbug -
Learn how to dance it. Mart Rodger shows you how
- Special
Offer - See the historical "Sweeping The Blues Away" Book details
- Whitewater Blues - A Just Jazz
article about Jazzy Joan & Eric Lawton
- All About Jazz - A great book
of jazz cartoons for fans and musicians
- Tuition, Courses & Workshops
- Looking for traditional jazz tuition?
- Life after Katrina - NW
drummer, Dave Moore, talks to Shannon Powell
- Manchester Sports Guild. - A
series of articles by Jack Swinnerton about the MSG
- A Success Story - A
Must Read for all Jazz Promoters. - Boston Spa Jazz Club
- Chords On Line - Looking for
chords, this page could possibly help
- A Trip to New Orleans - in fact
one of several., a musicians dream by Pete Vickers
- Straw boaters and striped blazers
- How did it all start?
- Down Under - Tony West &
Dennis Armstrong together in Australia
- Mad For Trad - Gordon
Hughes thanks creator Eddie Simpson
- Grants for Jazz - Some
success stories
- 50 years ago - Tony & Beryl
Davis celebrate their Golden Wedding
- Art Deco Music Festival - The
event in Stanley Park, Blackpool, and what went into it
- Another Milestone - Barry Aldous
celebrates his 70th Birthday in style
- Competition - Who where and
When? Can you recognise the musicians?
- Working Man's Blues - Joe
Oliver's Lead Sheet.
- Doggeral in Db - An ode to
Mart Rodger M/cr Jazz, more than 21 years at Didsbury CC.
- NFJO Royal Festival Hall Concert
- An unusual twist
- Joe Silmon - The Making,
Breaking and Repair of a British Jazzman
- Another banjo story
- Well I'll be Plucked!
- The New Entertainment License - A
page to discuss and share the problems
- 10th Avenue J.B. Visit the N.W.
A letter from America
- Last night at the John O'Gaunt
for Landlord Steve Thorn, the Jazzer's best friend
- Keith Hockin retires - A tribute from
Dick & Jackie Chapman
- Who's a plonker then? -
Tales
of banjos and banjo players
- N.W. Jazz Clubs - Find out
what's on at some of the North West's top venues
- The Manchester Connection -
Jazz in Ireland by Des Hopkins
- The Funeral of Randy Colville -
An account by Joe Silmon
- An American View -
Read about the 10th Ave Jazz band's trip to the North West
- Jazz meets
Jazz - Two musicians meet in extraordinary
circumstances
- Blue Mags
on TV - Your chance to see them again in slow
motion
- When we were
young - Remember when it was like this?
- Feedback
- Can you help keep this site updated
- A Wind Up? - Traditional Jazz is
the banal theme tune for every lost cause
- Lillian
Boutté A Pen Portrait *
- 'A visit
o'er ome' - Trevor Hodgson (clt) tells of his
musical trip to Lancaster
- Exploring Early
Jazz - A new book from Australia
- New Life
Member - For the
Merseysippi Jazz Band
- A
Day in the life of a Jazz Band -
Keith Allcock
- A
Day in New York - Brian
Gordon, there on 11th September
- Tales
of Woe - Three Jazz Stories from Bert Schroeder
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