This is currently name your price on Bandcamp. Sounds pretty interesting, think I will chuck them a few quid but you can pay nothing if you want
A survey of the modern jazz & hard-bop scenes that emerged in the new cultural melting pot of post war London, with recordings from the end of the 1940s through to the early 1960s.
Featuring representations from players whose roots lay in the East-End’s jewish community, such as Ronnie Scott, Vic Ash & Harry Klein, alongside a wealth of talent of Caribbean and African descent playing and recording in post war London during this period, incl. Dizzy Reece, Wilton Gaynair, Joe Harriott, Shake Keane & Ginger Johnson.
Made in partnership with the Barbican to coincide with the exhibition Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965.
Kid Dynamite says
can we get the Bandcamp player to embed here?
I Had the Craziest Dream: Modern Jazz and Hard-Bop in Post War London, Vol. 1 by Death Is Not The End
nope, guess you’ll just have to click through
fentonsteve says
I did notice the other day that Bandcamp have launched an App. I think it only plays your library/purchases, but I might be wrong.
Mike_H says
That looks well worth a punt.
Volume 1?
Does that mean there’s more to come?
Moose the Mooche says
I’m still waiting for The Story of the Clash Volume 2.
…perhaps it has all the hits on it…
deramdaze says
No, Volume 1’s the one for all those 45s jostling for the coveted no. 29 spot with Haysi Fantayzee. Should be able to chazzer it for one or two quid.
jazzjet says
Thanks. I’ve probably got most of these tracks spread across numerous collections but still nice to have them in one place. Plus it’s good to support labels that put out unprofitable jazz recordings. See also:
https://britprogjazz.bandcamp.com
https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com
jazzjet says
Vol 2 of the British jazz series is also out on Bandcamp.
https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/i-had-the-craziest-dream-modern-jazz-and-hard-bop-in-post-war-london-vol-2?from=fanpub_fnb
Mike_H says
Having a peculiar problem with my download of Vol.1.
Three of the twelve tracks will not show up in my music library, despite being present in the folder that it’s looking at.
Downloaded as FLAC files, they are individually playable if I go to the Windows folder where they are but looking at them in Explorer’s “Properties” tab for each one, they have no ID tags at all. Not even the ones that tell you what kind of file they are. Maybe this is the problem. Can’t write new tags to them either, for some mysterious security reason.
I tried downloading them again, first as FLAC files and then as WAV files but had exactly the same result both times. I contacted the supplier Death Is Not The End and they replied that tagging of files is done by Bandcamp so they have referred the matter to them.
Kaisfatdad says
This sounds very interesting. Lots of new names, such as blind pianist, Eddie Thompson, whose Nelson’s Column is from a whole album of tunes about London.
Here’s a story from his Wiki page:
“During the seventies, Eddie regularly travelled up to Stockport on Fridays, with his dog of course. During the day he would perform piano tuning at Nield and Hardy’s, one of the two major musical instrument stores in the town. Just round the corner from the store was the Warren Buckley pub and beneath was a jazz cellar where Eddie ( with dog under the piano ) played during the evening with two local musicians making up the trio. One notable evening touring American greats, Al Grey and Buddy Tate who was deputising for Jimmy Forrest, played a memorable session with Eddie’s trio.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Thompson_(musician)
As the comments from hit YT clip reveal, he is fondly remembered.
“I used to see and enjoy Eddie playing in The Eagle pub in Hackney on Saturday nights in the 70’s. a great favourite of Eddies was Robert Mitchum who also was in attendance on occasional Saturdays when in the UK filming and was happy to mingle with us regulars.”