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 [...]
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Dick Charlesworth
22 December, 2008 – 4:56 pm
Clarinettist and bandleader Dick Charlesworth was one of the leading stars of the British jazz boom of the late Fifties and early Sixties. A civil servant, he formed his first band in 1957 and only quit his day job when, after winning the South London Jazz Band Contest the following year and performing for the [...]