When I started this website the intention was to stick to the rock revolution, seeded in the fifties, exploding in the sixties and seventies and ending somewhere in the mid eighties before the rise of House music and DJ culture. While I was comfortable with jazz rock and the fusion bands that I saw and bought records by in my youth, like many, I was not part of that trad jazz world that preceded the Beatles breakthrough, that strange British version of Jazz that you would still hear drifting out of The Bell or other pubs in the seventies and eighties. After a while, however, my interest in that world grew and I soon realised that the connections between the musicians of both genre’s warranted that story to be told.

This page is just going to be an index of the various pages I will develop to explore this world of revivalist trad jazz.

Bill Kinnell – co-founder of the Nottingham Rhythm Club in 1941
Ken Allsop – co-founder of the Nottingham Rhythm Club in 1941
Alan Gilmour – Jazz fan and sound recordist
Mick Gill’s Imperial Jazz Band – Nottingham trad jazz musician
Mercia Jazz Band – Nottingham trad jazz band
Dancing Slipper – Venue
Boat Club – Venue. It was a Jazz club before rock took over
Apex Jazz Men – Nottingham trad jazz band
Johnny Hobbs Stompers – Nottingham trad jazz band
Ray Crane Jazz Band – Nottingham Jazz Band
Tony Jackson – Nottingham Jazz singer
John Crocker – Nottingham Jazz musician
Louis Armstrong in Nottingham
Big Bill Broonzy – Blues artist but played the Notts Jazz Clubs
Unknown Jazz Photos
Farmyard jazz band
Skiffle in Notts