[BITList] Fwd: Kenny Ball - Telegraph

[HUGH]

Mike,

Much regretted, and another one for the heavenly band. I first heard Ball on 
radio when he was with Sid Phillips, and the only time I saw him was when he 
played a packed out gig in a Community Centre in Greenock. The article lists 
most of the great and the good in the trad jazz world of that period. While 
it is true that the music became commercially successful in the late 50s, my 
friends and I were into it from the late 40s, mostly via US bands. At first, 
with us, the thought of a white band being any good was just not on - Bix 
Beiderbeck excepted. Snobs, I suppose, but that's the way we were. When Ken 
Colyer visited New Orleans he gained a good deal of cred with us. I remember 
a bearded, hairy sweatered chap (not me) standing up and shouting "Rubbish!" 
at a Lyttleton concert in the old St Andrews Hall, Glasgow. He was incensed 
at the inclusion of Bruce Turner on tenor sax. Tenor saxes were not 
mentioned in HolyWrit.

Hugh.