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Created in 1984, the label specialises in Jazz and mainly, but not exclusively, concentrates on British Traditional and Mainstream styles. Many of the albums are classic reissues, but the label also has current working bands.

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HUMPHREY LYTTELTON
Humph & His European Friends

LACD 276
CD

WILD BILL DAVIDSON
With Alex Welsh & His Band

LACD 279
CD

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Track Listing:
Willie The Weeper / Chicago Buzz; Straight From The Wood / Cakewalkin’ Babies From Home / Blues My Naughty Sweetie / East Coast Trot / Blues Galore / I’m Going Away Just To Wear You Off My Mind / Southern Stomps/ Blue Grass Blues / Room Rent Blues/ Once In A While / Mandy Make Up Your Mind / Buddy’s Habit / Beale St. Mama / Hotter Than That / It Makes My Love Come Down / Blame It On the Blues

Legendary British Jazz trumpeter joins forces with highly-rated European musicians Despite having caused shock and disbelief when, in the middle 1950s, Humphrey Lyttelton quit Traditional Jazz and formed a Mainstream band he never quite forsook his traditional roots.
Throughout his career he would return to playing in a more traditional-style band for a number of one-off projects. On this album he joins forces with three of Europe’s leading players: French clarinettists Pierre Atlan and Jean-Francois Bonnel and acclaimed Swedish trumpeter, Bent Persson. They are joined by other leadi ng UK musicians including Keith Nichols, Stan Greig, Wally Fawkes, John RT Davies, Paul Sealey and Mac White. The repertoire and style is largely from the Classsic era of the 1920s rather than that of British Trad.

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Track Listing:
Beale Street Blues / Sugar / Surfside Samba / Oh, Baby / Blue Again / Love Is Just Around The Corner / That’s A-Plenty / If I Had You / Sweet Georgia Brown / Blue & Broken Hearted / After You’ve Gone / Royal Garden Blues

Legendary American trumpet player in a superb ‘live’ session from the 1960s with one of the UK’s finest bands.
Wild Bill Davidson was one of the legendary trumpeters of American Jazz. He was part of the famous ‘Condon Gang’ from the 1930s onwards pioneering the Chicago Sc hool of Jazz. His hard driving trumpet and hard-living served to confirm his legendary status. The Alex Welsh band was the first choice of all the visiting American stars (Earl Hines, Red Allen, Bud Freeman, Peanuts Hucko, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Miller, etc.) being, arguably , the best band of its style in the UK. Wild Bill toured the UK with the band in the mid 1960s. This session recorded ‘live’ at the Manchester Sports Guild in 1966 sees the band and Wild Bill on particularly fine form. The wonderful rhythm section anchored by one of our best drummers, Lennie Hastings, provides the bedrock for the front line of class players: Alex Welsh, Roy Williams and John Barnes. Despite his wild man image, Bill’s feature Blue & Broken Hearted and Blue Again reveal him to be a sensitive and innovative player of real class.

CHRIS BARBER
With Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

LACD 278
CD

CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BAND
Complete Decca Sessions 1955-56

LACD 142
2 x CD

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Track Listing:
Washington & Lee Swing / Georgia Cakewalk / I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair / Big House Blues / Sing On / Midnight Special / Climbing On Top Of The Hill / Custard Pie / Betty & Dupree / This Little Light Of Mine / Southern Train / Cornbread Peas & Black Molasses / John Henry / Key To the Highway / If I Could Only Hear My Mother Pray Again / No Worries On My Mind / Glory / Do Lord / If I Ever Cease To Love / Bluebells Goodbye / When You & I Were Young Maggie / Just A Closer Walk With Thee / Runnin' Wild

American blues legends play alongside leading British Jazz Band in 1958.

The recent Blues Britannia programme on BBC4 pointed up jazzman Chris Barber's role in bringing American blues musicians to the UK. The commercial viability of touring bluesmen was questioned, but Barber used his own money and financed the projects using his own highly popular band as the basis for the shows. The first to record with the band were Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee with a 102 LP. This CD combines that brief album with previously unissued material by the two blues musicians plus similar material by the Chris Barber band from the 1958 tour period.

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Track Listing CD 1 Studio Sessions:
Bobby Shaftoe / Chimes Blues / The Martinique / New Orleans Blues / Merry Down Rag / Stevedore Stomp / Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out / Weeping Willow Blues / Rock Island Line / John Henry / Nobody’s Child / Wabash Cannonball Track Listing CD 2 Live Sessions:
Lord, Lord, Lor d / Merry Down Blues / Skokiaan / I’d Love It / Storyville Blues / It’s Tight Like That / Bury My Body / Diggin’ My Potatoes / Ice Cream / Oh Didn’t He Ramble / The Girls Go Crazy / I Never Knew Just What A Girl Could Do / St. Louis Blues / I Hate A Man Like You / Salutation March / Reckless Blues / The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

Reissue of the first recordings by a legend of British Jazz. Two for price of one!

July 1954 saw the creation of a British Jazz phenomenon, the formation of Chris Barber’s Jazz Band. 55 years later that band is still going strong. This double CD for the price of one includes some of the first records made by the band and reveal it to be a very polished, assured unit even at that early stage. As an aside two tracks were cut at that first session by the band’s banjo player, Lonnie Donegan. Two years later they were issued at a single and ‘Rock Island Line’ sparked the whole Skiffle craze. The popular Blues singer, Ottilie Patterson made her debut at the Royal Festival Hall in 1955 and recordings from the concert are on disc two.
The Barber Band has always been the most consistent seller of recordings of any of the UK Trad bands. This is a reissue and has proven to be Lake Records best selling album to date.

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