One of the things that helped me in my early days was becoming a night manager at the Marquee. Up to this time, it had been a jazz club and its manager, John Gee, was a jazzer.
When it started to get round to booking bands like Long John Baldry, Shotgun Express and all the up-and-coming [...]
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Colin Richardson’s Memories, Part 2
21 July, 2009 – 9:53 am
The Blackheath club was pretty successful. Their policy was to have the house band which was the Ian Bird Quintet or Sextet that played the first set and then they brought in a name jazz musician, like Tubby Hayes or Ronnie Scott, to play the second half and if they were amenable, the night would [...]