Lake Records continue to celebrate one of the great milestones in British Jazz with two more releases from the Record Supervision Catalogue. (Lake Records) 

The man behind this series of thirty album releases, the late Denis Preston, is regarded as one of the unsung heroes of the British Traditional Jazz Revival of the 1950s and 1960s. 

Gramophone in May 1963 described Preston as “an impresario of near genius.” As a producer, he was responsible for many of the classic records during that time and created two very significant series of recordings: the ‘Nixa Jazz Today Series’ (Pye) and later ‘The Lansdowne Jazz Series’ (Columbia) as well as a number of successful singles. 

Denis Preston died in 1979, at which time the Sunday Times cited him “as the most important figure to emerge from the British Jazz business”.

ARTIST: KEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN

TITLE: THIS IS JAZZ - CAT NO: LACD201D

TRACK LISTING
Papa Dip (2 takes), Dusty Rag, Heebie Jeebies, Somebody Stole My Gal (2 takes), Hilarity Rag, Salutation March, Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, Working Man’s Blues, Sweet Fields, Riverside Blues, Cheek to Cheek (2 takes), At a Georgia Camp Meeting, Just the Blues, I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll, South, Ballin’ the Jack, When I Grow Too Old To Dream, When I Leave The World Behind, Get Out Of Here And Go On Home, Mabel’s Dream, Blanche Touquatoux, Savoy Blues, Gonna Get Along Without You Now, Sweet Sue, There’ll Come Another Day, The Happy Wanderer, Maryland My Maryland, Too Busy, Maple Leaf Rag, Cielito Lindo.


Ken Colyer is one of the legendary figures of British Traditional Jazz. This release (along with LACD188) completes his set of recordings for the famous Lansdowne Jazz series of the 1960s. And it’s a generous package, the CD album - the first compact disc release of these recordings - comprise two LPs, an EP, a single, out-takes from the sessions plus two tracks with Blues singer, Little Brother Montgomery. 

It reveals a band in a transition period from what is often referred to as Colyer’s ‘classic’ line-up, featuring Ian Wheeler and Mac Duncan, to a more temporary line-up but which did introduce to the Jazz world 18 year old Sammy Rimington, who was to go on to build an international reputation. 

This Lake release represents some of Colyer’s best work on a major label. Writing of these releases in the 1960s, Jazz Journal noted: “for sheer sensitivity and feeling for the idiom Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen are streets ahead. They alone have captured the ensemble texture, the melodic and tonal beauty that are synonymous with good New Orleans music. And on this record they have done it more assuredly and impressively than ever before”.

ARTIST: TERRY LIGHTFOOT’S NEW ORLEANS JAZZMEN

TITLE: TRADE PARADE CAT NO: LACD205


TRACK LISTING
Dr Jazz, Alabama Jubilee, St Louis Rag, Egyptian Fantasy, Dippermouth Blues, It’s A Long Way To Tipperary, The Preacher, I Wish I Was In Preoria, Old Fashioned Love, Lotus Blossom, Madeira, Mahogany Hall Blues, South, It’s Life, I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time, Do You Know What It Means, Sit Down You’re Rocking The Boat, Oh Didn’t He Ramble.

The word ‘trad’ was coined for the title of a Terry Lightfoot recording and was used on a number of his 1960s releases. This release from the talented Lightfoot comprises a number of singles and EPs plus an original LP. 

Lightfoot, who often topped the Melody Maker charts as best clarinet player, surpassing Acker Bilk and Monty Sunshine, celebrates next year (2005) 50 years as a band leader. 

This CD is a romp through a typical Lightfoot programme of the time. It is a tight, pianoless band fronted by one of the UK’s best trumpet players, Alan Elsdon. In the booklet notes band leader and festival organiser, Mike Durham states “….as good an example of top-line British Traditional Jazz from the 1960s as we are ever likely to get.”

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