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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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CLYDE VALLEY STOMPERS
Collection 1956-1961

LACD303
CD

CRANE RIVER JAZZ BAND
1960

LACD306
CD

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Track Listing:
The Uist Tramping Song; / Keep Right On To The End Of The Road / I Love A Lassie / The Old Rustic Bridge By The Mill / Tres Moutarde (version 1) / When The Saints Go Marching In / Old Time Religion / Open Up Them Pearly Gates / The Teddy Bears' Picnic / The Eyes Of Texas / I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate / Milenburg Joys / Struttin' With Some Barbeque / Bill Bailey (version 1 / Polly Wolly Doodle / In A Persian Market / Ace In The Hole / Roses Of Picardy / Beale Street Blues / Gettysburg March / Swingin' Seamus / Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay / Bill Bailey (version 2) / Savoy Blues / The Soldier's Dream / Mack The Knife / Disk 2: The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise / Just A Closer Walk With Thee / Tres Moutarde (version 2) / Yellow Dog Blues / Irish Black Bottom / Ice Cream / Royal Garden Blues / There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight / Jambalaya / Barnyard Blues / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me / The Fish Man / I Can't Give You Anything But Love / Il Trovatore / The Battle Hymn Of The Republic / High Society / Salty Dog; / Prelude In C Sharp Minor / Five Foot Two / Eyes Of Blue / 12th Street Rag / Scotland The Brave / Black Angus / The Big Man / Play To Me Gypsy / Trombones To The Fore / Taboo / Auf Wiederseh'n

The Stompers had some good musicians and produced happy, goodtime, popular Jazz. This ‘Double CD For The Price Of One’ package covers all their recorded output from 1956 to 61 plus one previously unreleased track.

If you were looking for a classic Trad Jazz band of the 1960s The Clyde Valley Stompers fitted the bill. Their sound was big and brash and they were enormously popular. They had formed as early as 1952 and made their first recordings (on disc 1) for Decca’s Scottish Beltona label in 1956. It wasn’t until 1959 under the leadership of Ian Menzies, and a switch to the major Pye label with the legendary Lonnie Donegan producing, that they began to have any real success. Vocalist Fionna Duncan was a great asset and gave them a minor hit with ‘Salty Dog’ in 1960. They became Scotland's premier band and toured the UK extensively.

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Track Listing:
Panama / I Want A Little Girl / Pretty Baby; Weary Blues / Wolverine Blues / Faraway Blues / When I Leave The World Behind / Midnight Hour Blues / When You're Smiling / Till We Meet Again / Home Sweet Home / Outro


Legendary British Trad band from the late 1940s reformed in the 1970s and captured ‘live’ at a club session in 1988 – 40 years on.

In the history of British Trad Jazz two bands loom large from the 1940s revival, George Webb’s Dixielanders and The Crane River Jazz Band. The Crane River Band included Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine two musicians who would go on to greater things. Unlike Webb’s band which based its approach on the more sophisticated Jazz played by King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton who went ‘up the river’ to Chicago, the Cranes based its style on the rugged New Orleans music played by musicians who stayed in New Orleans such as Bunk Johnson and George Lewis.

The Crane River Jazz Band had effectively come to an end by 1953 when Colyer set out on his pilgrimage to New Orleans and the band became an affectionate memory and the stuff of legend. In 1972 the original band reformed for some gigs and recordings. This ‘live’ recording comes from 1988 and was made a few months after Ken Colyer had died. It was recorded by Allan Gilmour, is part of the on-going series on LAKE of ‘The Allan Gilmour Tapes’ and captures all the excitement and atmosphere of a Crane River Jazz Band gig.

DIZ DISLEY
And His String Quintet

LACD307
CD

RAY FOXLEY
The Professor's Choice

LACD304
CD

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Track Listing:
Hot Lips / Burnadette's Blues / Viper's Dream (Version 1) / Three Little Words / Sweet Georgia Brown (Version 1) / Angry / Nuages / Belleville / I Saw Stars / Sweet Sue / Avalon / Minor Swing (Version 1) / You're Driving Me Crazy / Honeysuckle Rose / I Found A New Baby / H.C.Q. Strut / Swing 39 / Sheik Of Araby / I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate / Shine / Dinah / Viper's Dream (Version 2) / Oui / Sweet Georgia Brown (Version 2) / Minor Swing (Version 2)

1950s recordings of Gipsy Jazz from one of the Jazz and Folk world’s great characters and most accomplished guitarists.

Today there is a proliferation of groups performing the Gipsy Jazz purveyed by the legendary Django Reinhardt, but in the 1950s Reinhardt – who died in 1951 – was on the verge of being forgotten. Enter Diz Disley, cartoonist, broadcaster, banjo player and Django inspired guitarist. Diz served his time in numerous Trad bands including The Yorkshire Jazz Band, Mick Mulligan’s, Ken Colyer’s, Kenny Ball, Chris Barber and Alex Welsh’s as well as the Skiffle Groups of Chas McDevitt and Bob Cort. He formed his String Quintet to play the music of Django Renhardt to play the interval spot at Humphrey Lyttelton’s Club at 100 Oxford Street in London. The group proved popular and was soon broadcasting and playing more gigs. They made few recordings, one set for the small 77 Records label and an EP for Pye. All those recordings are included here including some unreleased tracks. Diz went on to greater things when he rediscovered Django Reinhardt’s ex- partner Stephane Grappelli and gave him a whole new career. Diz Disley revived his String band occasionally over the years. He died in 2010.

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Track Listing:
Liberia Rag / Black Queen Rag / Logger Rhythms / Once In A While / Blues For Ken / Saffron Rag / Old Fashioned Love / Ealing Touch / Chauvinism / Davenport Blues / The Frenchman's / Serendipity Dance / 51 Stomp / Maple Leaf Rag / Vieux Carre / Key Largo / Action Stations




A previously unreleased album of solo recordings by the popular Trad Jazz ragtime pianist, Ray Foxley. Ray Foxley was one of a small number of piano players to gain a reputation on the Trad Jazz scene in the 1960s. He formed his first band in 1946 and worked with the early British Jazz legends Mick Mulligan, Mike Daniels, Chris Barber and, later, Rod Mason. He really came to the public notice when he joined Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen in 1957. Although he only stayed three years the period was Colyer’s heyday and his reputation as a Ragtime pianist grew. He worked on the continent for a few years and in the 1980s and 90s he saw a new lease of life on the Trad Jazz festival circuit and the Jazz theme weekends at holiday camps and hotels. He was a popular figure at these events until his death in 2002.

This CD is a previously unreleased album he recorded in 1989 and comprises a large number of his own compositions. It was beautifully recorded on the superb Steinway Grand piano at Rosehill Theatre in the Lake District and shows him to be a pianist with more wide-ranging influences then just Ragtime. It is released as a tribute to Ray on the tenth anniversary of his death.

MERSEYSIPPI JAZZ BAND
Vintage Volume 2

LACD302
CD

CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BAND
There Were Some Changes Made 1961-65

LACD305
CD

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Track Listing:
Big Bear Stomp / Daddy Do / Sage Hen Strut / The Mooche / Hiawatha Rag / Creole Love Call / Swipesy Cakewal / Whitewash Man / Grandpa's Spells / Working Man Blues / That's A-Plenty / Memphis Blues / Funky Butt / Oh, By Jingo / Wana / Scott Joplin's New Rag / I Wish't I Was In Peoria / Get Out & Get Under

A completion of the reissue programme of a popular Trad band of the 1950s including tracks by singer Clinton Ford.

This is the second volume of recordings and complete the reissue of their 1950s output. The Merseysippi Jazz Band is the UK’s longest established Traditional Jazz Band. They played their first gig in 1949 and are still going strong. They made their first broadcast for the BBC in 1952 and their first commercial recording in 1954. Their other claim to fame was opening the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1957 where they held a residency for two years. A Skiffle group named The Quarrymen led by one John Lennon also made its debut at The Cavern and eventually ousted the Trad bands – the rest is history. This CD is mainly compiled from the archives of the legendary British independent Jazz label Esquire. The guest on the album is the ever popular, Clinton Ford. The last 6 tracks come from the Oriole, a major label which had just signed Clinton. He was to get into the charts soon after, but not backed by the Merseys. It’s easy to see why the band was popular – they made more records for Esquire than any other Trad band – with their brand of good foot-stompin’ Trad and the big brassy sound of the two trumpet front-line.

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Track Listing:
Weary Blues / Come On Coot & Do That Thing / Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams / All Of Me; Black & Tan Fantasy / Jazz Lips / Original Charleston Strut / El La Bas / Some Of These Days / Crying For The Carolines / Blue Blood Blues / Yellow Dog Blues / I Never Shall Forget / Petite Fleur / Shout Em Aunt Tillie / Georgia Swing / There'll Be Some Changes Made / Bye And Bye / Jeeps Blues / Sideways

One of Trad Jazz’s most popular bands undergoes changes in the 1960s to stay at the forefront of British Jazz.

Chris Barber had built one of the most popular bands during the Trad Jazz boom of the late 1950s. Trad’s popularity declined with the advent of The Beatles. Many bands struggled on, but Chris Barber rose to the challenge and altered and adapted his band and this CD the early stages of those changes. In 1961 his most famous sideman, Monty Sunshine, left and was replaced by Ian Wheeler. Ian brought Alto Sax and Harmonica into the band which allowed Chris to develop the Blues format as revealed on our previous release LACD296. In pursuing the more R’n’B style Chris Barber brought in Blues guitarist John Slaughter. The band was slowly changing into the Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band which is still gigging today. This CD traces the early days of those changes and for Trad Jazz fans the material will be familiar. John Slaughter died in 2010 and Ian Wheeler this year so this release is dedicated to those two fine musicians.

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