Jazz Profiles
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A blog about Jazz featuring CD,and book reviews and postings about the music and its makers.
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The Manor House Jazz Club may be described as a small piece of dry land entirely surrounded by alcohol.
Jazz News, February 1958
Without any shadow of doubt this 12-piece humdinger is producing the most stimulating, swinging, satisfying and downright exciting big band jazz in Britain today.
Jazz News, June 1960
It wasn't my idea, but I more or less took it over. There was no money to be made...
Tubby Hayes, Crescendo, 1963 ..read more
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“Rob was also a teacher of mathematics and maybe that had also something to do with the fact that he became a wizard in harmony. He was a very straight ahead and honest person and he only wanted to play the music he liked. That was one of the reasons he gave up his job as a professional musician and became a teacher in mathematics. That way he had a steady income in order to give his family financial support and he could still play the music he loved on a very high level. Later on he got an offer for a teaching posit ..read more
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“One evening in the early summer of 1958 I went to an amusement park called Grona Lund, on the outskirts of Stockholm, to hear the excellent altoist Arne Domnerus, one of Sweden's best. His orchestra was billed as a dance band, but they were playing jazz, very good jazz.
I chatted with the musicians between sets, and with one in particular, the friendly and loquacious trumpeter Bengt-Arne Wallin.
When the evening was over, and all the blond girls and their escorts were gone from the outdoor dance pavilion, and the ..read more