BillF

So sorry to see that. I started my jazz career with Tony Coe in 1957 when I was 17 and saw him in the Lyttelton band which also featured saxophonists Jimmy Skidmore and Joe Temperley.

Now that would have been something!

Why trad jazz? Because there was a revival - just as there is now a hard bop/Blue Note revival. (Check Smalls jazz club on YouTube). As for the traditional jazz revival, look into Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis and Ken Colyer. The Barber band in the videos must now be seen as something of a classic (I saw them once in 1957), a legitimate offshoot and development from the New Orleans jazz of an earlier era. (Listening to 1950s Bechet, Lyttelton and Barber soon took me to Morton, Oliver and Armstrong.)

I know Alan Barnes well and have seen him play many times. I fully back John's selection (particularly the one with Scott Hamilton) and would perhaps add this:

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When you mentioned The Great Plains, I thought immediately of a Willa Cather novel I read about 25 years ago. I think it must have been O Pioneers! My abiding memory is of the extreme hardship suffered by the early settlers.

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