Alex Welsh Jazz Band - It Don't Mean A Thing video free download

John Catanach

Great band, their version of Dippermouth is the best ever I think, not featured on Youtube though!

Martin Platt

More a Dixieland style.....great!

Martin Platt

Used to watch this amazing band at the Bell in Maidenhead with my late father in circa 1975 - 1978. Brilliant. Fred Hunt on piano and Lennie Hastings on drums.....Alex could tell a few jokes as well.....great great band.

jim smith

Does anybody remember Rick Shaw and his hot Coolies. Great trad jazz Sunday evenings at Ally Pally mid to late seventies? Happy days.

Bernard Victor

Grfeat band. What is the personel.

John Catanach

Yes a great band, used to dance away at the Queen Vic, North Cheam way back when.

Peter Smith

My uncle, Art Sanders, used to run the Wood Green Jazz Club where I regularly attended the Sunday night sessions. The Alex Welsh band was a great favourite of mine along wuth my very favourite, Fredddie Randall. But then the core of Alex's band was ex Randall musicians. Two terrific English bands. RIP Alex & Freddie.

Pilsner Jazz Band

Thanks for comment! I'd love to meet them in person...

Alasdair ScottSutherland

....and we used to dance (skip-jive, I remember) to them at The Downs Hotel, Hassocks, in 63-64, when Lennie Hastings was going through his aooooiyah aoooeeeyaaaaagh phase at the end of his drum solo. My favourite was Exactly Like You.

Graham Martin

Yeah, a truly great band. Roy Crimmins was really good but Roy Williams was sensational! I followed the band for many years - St Albans jazz club etc., and even played their intevals at Osterley Jazz Club with my band the Mike Graham JB. Roy Williams is my absolute trombone hero and I have always tried to use his style as the basis for my own. I think we are both getting a bit long in the tooth these days but I am still getting there. 'Onya Roy!

Cthulhu1970

Roy Williams is an amazing trombone player, one of the very best ever. Tremendous melodic improvisational style.

ItzWelshie

haha alex welsh is my name

mkimber1000

used to go to the Fishmongers Arms in the late 60s on a Sunday night to see Alex and the gang, complete with Lennie and his helmet! Great memories

Alan Bond

Good to see dear old Alex and the band again and especially Johnny Barnes who, I believe, has recently suffered a stroke. Such a great band and sadly missed.

johnj1940

A regular on a Sunday Evening at Wood Green Jazz Club. A great band

shirley rogers

Now thats Jazz.

swingthatmusic!

fantastico!

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