The toll on the left side going up through March it was in but it got out of the center as well Nerissa hires against it down with a 600 bed hospital for military and other not including G.I.'s The Masons guns that if they were all missing and they make a dozen dollars for their men before they went to the invasion in $9045.00 and under a 1000000 Americans soldiers in Northern Ireland and they were all getting training to go to the invasion could determine it now alongside the training for war of course there was the musical side and you joined the regimental dance band in new thread we had we had a 12 piece band there professional musicians called up to the I. Didn't call the. Professional and all the did was play and entertain did you get any musical tuition at that time I did yes I got plenty of tuition and when I went there I went to replace a guy called Joe Benjamin. It was the London session is in the medic the bass player and the dentist time and he wanted out and they said use random and up to your standard and you can beat them up and go home and that's what Joe did Joe give me a month's training intensive on the basis that I was a fair best they had them but I'm not mature you know he was a prob use they should do the stuff he brought me up to standard and I joined the band regimental downs bound to entertain the troops all the time and know that now that we played 5 nights a week all over the country to military personnel there was also a very big canteen and Lurgan was yes the United Kingdom optical company who employed a 1000 people it was a London for him to back you had to Northern Ireland because who are. Essential or were making optical stuff lenses and binoculars and all this and then went on the Nile and set up a wartime factory and they were very entertainment conscious and they had a canteen that held the fattest people and there was entertainment every week they brought in many visiting bands didn't they That's right Ted Heath was that of course actor Bill Kenny Ball all of the bands came over to do a tour down to the fact you had a big county idea for concerts you know note talking about playing at gigs all over the place there was one band that was very very popular in jazz in those slightly later days in the 1950 s. Late fifty's and that was the point he goes into this for a moment. No So why do you go through playing like me in the lifeboat Do you remember the White House I do very well very brash and was the leader I'm not sure. There were bases tremendous college and that's where there was to try to live when I met. They played in that jail all the queens on a Saturday night and they were all students almost keen as mustard I'm really done the middle of the road New Orleans Jazz and they had great success today they did it was the best band enough time and they're all so young they're all still I'm keen as mustard Roy but you guys had a batting his 91st birthday in March and sadly shortly afterwards Roy passed away I was grateful to his wife Jo for being able to share those precious memories. Moving on to the summer months I invited several members of the jazz community to take part in a miniseries reflecting on their jazz interests 1st I was man of many parts Trevor Foster I was ferry dock that I happened to meet up with Ted 1st off who at the time was a couple of years older than me and had been involved with playing jazz at Methodist College where there were instruments available that they had a little bow on playing and a child and they will show how to read you and you should invite me round his house to listen to the records say how to do was days which were Jelly Roll Morton and my g. Spot near the type of thing there and Ted really hit me through the network everything interesting time to end that after the war quite a number of British bands and names in jazz came to prominence and I'm taking one particular man to whom a great deal is a hoot and that can call Yeah that's right when I 1st started buying records most of the records available were present and 70 it's on our own phone and then in 1954 can call your who had gone to New Orleans he had realized that probably quite a lot of the old magician's would still be alive and playing show to get to New Orleans he joined a ship in the merchant if he had been to the merchant of you before he got to over to you America and he jumped ship and got to your didn't as I was able to set in and play with people like the great George Lewis and Jim Robinson but he was then arrested because of the of the laws there of whites and blacks playing together and he was put into prison and deported and whenever he came back he decided he would carry on this music and he joined up with the Chris Barber bond of that period I replaced their child the player he was Ben Cohen and they produced the style that he wanted. Unproduced the 1st 10 inch LP called from New Orleans to. The can carve your band there from 953 and that was a wonderful example of his playing than the hop Street Blues What does it feel like listening to that because it was recorded a long time ago 65 years ago well it certainly takes us right back at I knew every note having bought the the LP We played it in terrible day I still remember every note I do I must say the 1st record I bought off it was a 70th reputed I'm 70 it's before the l P's appeared. We bought our records on 70 it's which I still have all my 70 it's you worked in the oil business didn't you and you were starting to be posted overseas yes in 66 just after the Jubilee started I was posted I Geria which was my 1st overseas posting at Port Harcourt defended the be off when war was just starting so there was I going to the Who tailed by tox a new to see quite a few dead bodies of on the side of the road because the eagle was killed anybody who could be speaking people said that was the start of the be offered war show during the period that I was in Port Harcourt they put producers on the runway of the airport and we are by 2000 experts there mostly Dutch with the oil business we were cut off completely but one of the entrusting things about you traveler is the fact that wherever you are in the warrant you will see car jazz and that was true there in Pok through there I remember having an evening meal at the hotel I was staying and with the chop call day of made. On the bike ride and music was a Chris Barber record appeared out of turn tight at d. It was a child had pled drums and of course we got talking about Fred late and then we discovered some of the Dutchmen were interested and shots of there were instruments that had been used by somebody at the at the club there called him a karate club so we decided to start again for our own interests weekly session just for ourselves a before very long half a Port Harcourt was there. On a good time was had by Ted was a fuck I have a recording of the last session I did there when I was presented with my farewell present that I have all of recorded look it was of the American there a big tip recorder and recorded the whole of the last night session up to the karate club of the Niger Delta stone bridge. Trevor Foster in Africa with the Niger Delta Stumper's and then late again join me to talk about her background in jazz born in England the family moved to America when she was still a youngster do you think that being in America really prompted jor interest in jazz . I imagine it did just but it's kind of by happenstance and luck that I arrived at this tiny town and ever old Ohio where we only had 22 in our high school band from grades 7 through 12 so that's like ages you know 12 and a half to 18 and so we only had enough people to do a jazz band in my high school band director was very into big band and he had a 400 chart dance band book for us to play out of so so as a 13 year old I was playing you know b.c. And Ellington and Mingus and you know Jimmy Dorsey and all these great charts but he sent me home with this recording of Stan Getz body and soul which was like I say that's like what that's when I knew like this is what I want to do I want I want to do this forever I want to play jazz forever and I took that recording of body and soul home and I learned the solo before I knew what that was called which is called transcription or transcribing and where you note for note repeat was someone else's doing and I had come back to school the next day and played on the whole solo and he was just so shocked that I could do that that he had an arrangement written for our our jazz ensemble all the time for me to play that are contests and things and through playing that a contest like it connected me to scenes and that's where I got my start yes rest was history is like I'm doing this now. Body and Soul They're a lovely version bias time gadgets are a remarkable performance You course none were listening to his recording and learning from the does having a good memory be important is that important to a jazz artist I think definitely is a memory but also just letting it imprint a feeling on you that aids of the memory like the memory isn't such a technical thing it's more of a feeling you know and if you can remember how something made you fell ill. And can really connect with it as a whole piece like you have a better chance of digesting it and keeping it in there for years to come like I know right now I can play that solo What was your 1st instrument piano piano was my 1st Century actually technically guitar but I never learned how to play it I had a guitar I had a moment of rock star moment but as a little kid I watched Bomba and I wanted to be Ritchie Valens it was like a whole thing but I started studying piano 1st and I loved classical piano and I wanted to be a concert pianist when I was all 7 and I. At a Juilliard sweatshirt I was sure that's what I was going to do the rest my life until they discovered sex with. Melina get odd with David and. Next in the mini series came not a local play but a local jazz supporter former colleague David copper who shared with me some of his preferences in jazz beginning with Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. And then. You may believe me. There's. Did. You lead me. Read. Their. Feet. Bessie Smith with knowing Armstrong and careless love again that shows I think the tremendous feeling for had for the songs the music she sang yes the clarity of the way she was able to sing to these masterpieces I suppose they were originally when they came out in the twenty's and thirty's take a breath away. She died very sadly after a car accident in 1983 and it said you know that it was her color that militated against her because if she had been white perhaps she'd have got better medical attention more quickly and might have survived so she was a terrible loss but again it it's marvelous now today that we can still listen to some of those Norris recordings like Careless Love and talking of jazz and blues artists who who died very young we're going on now to another very very big name and that's big by a bank we're going to take to the jazz band ball with Bix and his gang. Big Spider bag and his gang at the jazz band ball he was an interesting character of our Because he was really the 1st major white solo artist in jazz what wanted to have about his talents that appealed to you and just in general it is an old as it's exciting music if lovely music a rich full of memories as well and by a very warm. Spot in my heart for Mr Butler back it's a theme I sometimes come back to from time to time and not his how jazz sometimes you're here jazz as a young person and it stays with you for life was that true with you what when did you 1st start to take an interest in jazz thinking back on it the 2nd world war it was mostly American music wasn't very much until around about 194849 if you could bands began to form and Jazz began to play and there were 4 or 5 really very good bands playing all of that run Belfast at the end of July it was the turn of Malcolm gooding to remember some heady nights of jazz here and to share more memories of favorite recordings. Got. Many holiday Lester Young Teddy Wilson and even Benny Goodman there to. Yes that's right he was in a lot of those small groups put together by Ted Ableson it's an interesting story that Tony Wilson wasn't that enamored of Billie Holiday singing which is a bit amazing and he much preferred a girl called Ethel including. A look her up and no relation No I looked her up and she sang round Harlem at the same time as Billie Holiday did that you can get a record of summer but I haven't got the but interesting because I think what they did Lester and Billy together was amazing or they just melded. They were of a single thought that was perfect and that's very sad Isn't that in the history of jazz that so many players didn't really live very long life I suppose lifestyle was part of that Lester and belly really didn't didn't last too long but at their peak they were magnificent Oh they were the very best Lester that. I've just heard that's the most wonderful solo Turner solo It's simple logic it's got everything effortless effortless the spirit of I love that let's go to some of your own work now. There's one name of a venue in particular that is very very important it certainly lives on in the memory of everybody who followed jazz here over the years and that was Glen back and you're Glen Mack and band what was Glen back and for you Well the American was very very important because I like the mainstream jazz the daisy and Ellington and Francis that sort of thing. People had a go at us but they never were strong enough a part of the it's something that has to be reversed. And I was given a chance for her sing this bound. As a lead them they were done correctly and not eventually as I always thought it might to court on people weren't asking for Tiger Rag and all these things never quite happy to listen to spanking Holies Basie tapes Thanks it gave me a chance to do that and I and I wrote a raise was an. Original. Wonderful time for me because I was able to do these things always wanted to do well. Of course the personnel change from time to time but the band recorded Peter Lloyd studios in 1973 we should listen to the glen backing band and 1 o'clock job. Marcum go to his kind of American band had a very lively taught him for local jazz. Vocalist Andrus parks hails from cold rain but she had Nick well run a very successful music establishment shoe factory in Northamptonshire on holiday here this year I caught up with them to share some musical moments and related compensation Weaver of dreams a lot of people have recorded what makes this one special do you think. It's a lovely lovely man it's a beautiful words and it's got on that note a journey which is a treat for us really she's a young player who can play in any style basically. Worked with her at college at Trinity College just not right and said we've got to get her on the album before she you know assists become takes on career fairs but she was great she plays on the different tracks in completely different way with great authority actually and the lovely piano work of Nikki young yet we girls come up well in this one it's a delight it's a lovely to be in a band that it's equal to $33.00 male 3 female it's it's a treat. Your own leveraged. You and your story. Your room with. You Off. 2. But here you are anyway I believe been listening to some of the music from the album Tell me a bunch the shoe factory run I'm stating I wonder if people get in touch with the looking for so be as rich yeah yeah I'm going to say that I didn't get it or yeah actually some people here today ring up to me and all we get our 3 mounts are offering us things related to shooters in there and you get people it was a 7 start making sure factory farmed in 19 sixties it was new since the storage price for sorry for several get people you know 100 up to rebels that want to buy So from that region you know who actually forming up in the very annoyed if you know I'm very well somebody right not in the most times there was shares and I said no we don't sell shares you know rates research as here and well recorded to show factory folks you know you are absolutely furious us of course are you married it's just what we've been saying but I still work in building you know I think that's the thing the world and I'm certain and they could work very well because all year round you're running. Very important jazz courses don't you yeah think they're very unique and. In the u.k. And actually probably anywhere in the sense that there are real programmers work for came prior and. From right from jazz pianists through to professional level but it's actually a program similar to a college track program but it's you know one you can very part time out where you can service or as an opportunity for came prior and say it's a really unique interesting when we listen to the flames that inflames hoga voice very often is it instrument to the way isn't it Oh absolutely absolutely I mean the whole thing is to blend in and that's why I love the lyrics so much he just introduced the theme and they take it off I mean Art every time he plays he takes it away from whatever cause level playing field I make it to begin with he takes it some occur in fact all the players take it some a completely different and develop it as they go which is the most think it's very vital I think it really is. Sparks. And that's all from jazz club for this year the Hamilton loaches his new year here on b.b.c. Radio show on Saturday night night meantime a very Happy New Year and the hope is refilled with the best of Jed's. One. Comes the jackpot. What I do. Know. Well it's been a credible year musically for us once again here on b.b.c. Radio all Stern radio for. New Year's Eve at half past 7 Steven Rainey takes a look back at some great live music sessions on star named guests from across the musical spectrum. 1990. 61341 media thinks b.b.c. Radio one. B.b.c. News at 10 o'clock with Cameron English President Trump says people need to come together to eradicate the scourge of anti Semitism after a knife attack at a rabbi's hoss which left 5 people injured some seriously it happened in the Monsey suburb of New York yesterday a man's been charged with attempted murder Joseph Glock tried to stop the attacker getting into a parked synagogue next door and started shooting people right and left he came into the dining room and people there it's already in the kitchen that he came back that I could that's really I tried to having run after me he didn't go so I came back in a through a coffee table at the guy and then he started to come after me walked out of door and he started screaming hey you all got you and I screamed for everybody to move away that all the people should get here back home a man in his fifty's has died following a house fire in east Belfast police are not treating the blaze at Clara would park on suspicious fire chief Alan Walmsley said there was no working smoke alarm in the home they carried out 1st gear to the car people before to the government passed away we believe because the fire has been accidental but are their skis of course going to get up we believe there is no one to guard the public which became one of my key messages were to help everybody in the community about the importance of having a walk at school in their home so it came with our everybody to reflect that are there the Football Association of volunteers apologize to the hundreds of thousands of people involved in ours football at all levels for what it calls mistakes of the past Arnie or the f.a. I admitted it's financial crisis could possibly lead to the liquidation of. Association David Moyes has been appointed manager of West Ham for a 2nd time and will be in charge for the New Year's Day game against Bournemouth at London stadium Meanwhile Liverpool will finish the year with a 13 point lead at the top of the Premier League following a one nil win against Wolves at Anfield they are again took center stage with a lengthy delay for the Reds goal before wolves had one disallowed for a marginal offside the decision didn't go down while with Wolves Captain Conor Cody I spoke trying to feel it was a bit today in my style of speech he really really is but you don't like a lot of occasion of what's happening they don't tell you what's going on which on our side Ok Well we don't need to act so far outside is what we don't know it's so short to take another no it's happened twice was nominated in the last 2 games we want to play probably the best 2 teams in the world in the space of 3 days and this isn't going to sort of finally your weather update it will stay dry overnight with a lot of Clyde with temperatures staying between the mid to high single figures for tomorrow will be a Claudie picture with a bit of a breeze maybe a few spots of light rain a drizzle in the morning but not an awful lot most places will stay dry but by tomorrow afternoon we will begin to see our breaks of ring coming in from the north coast becoming patchy or as a travel site during tomorrow evening top temperatures a Monday 10 or 11 degrees 3 minutes past 10 b.b.c. News. Someday with John Boehner. On b.b.c. Radio our story. It's nice to be back again. I am. Good evening it's 4 minutes past 10 Welcome to another meeting of the Sunday club I'm Jon Benet I'm the owner of the president of the club which I know it sounds rather push doesn't it means really is that I get to choose the music and I hope that you approve of my choice I also get to read your dedication in the 2nd half of the program and that's about. The rest of the time I just sit here relax and enjoy the music right alongside you. The Sun.