BillF

Quentin Collins Sextet at Wigan Jazz Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4uYbrXpNxw

That's a good un!

If jazz includes blues, this may have been the first:

I saw him in the Giants of Jazz package with Dizzy, Stitt, Monk, McKibbon and Blakey in 1971.

Now playing:

The recent sad departure of Irish guitarist Louis Stewart leaves Dave as the leading jazz guitarist in this part of the world IMO.

Dave Cliff was a friend in the late 1960s when we were both students in Leeds, I at the University, Dave on the pioneering Jazz and Light Music course at the College of Music where he was taught by Tristano veteran Peter Ind. I renewed the friendship with Dave at a concert in Manchester in 1984 when he was playing in a sextet of Jimmy Deuchar, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, Peter Ind and Al Levitt. Probably his greatest moment on record was when he recorded in Scandinavia with Konitz, Marsh and Ind. I believe he's still playing, but he never seems to have gigs in the north of England, which is a pity as I'd love to hear him again.