British jazz

Location · 1950s → · London · Modern jazz (1940-1970)

The "trad boom" of the 1950s (Ken Colyer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Chris Barber) precedes a modern scene: Ronnie Scott's opens in London in 1959, Stan Tracey is the house pianist there, Tubby Hayes reigns there. Joe Harriott records Free Form (1960). In the 1980s, Loose Tubes and Courtney Pine revive the scene, before the new London generation.

Where it comes from

• Traditional revival
• Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's)

What it gave rise to or influenced

• Renaissances (Los Angeles, London)
• Indo-jazz
• Canterbury scene and British jazz-rock

Artists

• Courtney Pine (1964, saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, EWI)
• Jamie Cullum (1979, vocals, piano)
• Stan Tracey (1926–2013, piano, vibraphone)
• Humphrey Lyttelton (1921–2008, trumpet, clarinet)
• John Dankworth (1927–2010, alto saxophone, clarinet, conducting)
• Norma Winstone (1941, vocals, lyrics)
• Chris McGregor (1936–1990, piano, composition, conducting)
• Georgie Fame (1943, vocals, Hammond organ, piano, guitar)
• Anthony Joseph (vocals, lyrics)
• Zara McFarlane (vocals)
• Ian Carr (1933–2009, trumpet, flugelhorn)

Tracks to start with

• Down in the Village — Tubby Hayes Quintet (1962)
• Mexican Green — Tubby Hayes Quartet (1967)
• Children of the Ghetto — Courtney Pine (1986)
• Twentysomething — Jamie Cullum (2003)
• Distance — Norma Winstone (2008)
• Yeh, Yeh — Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames (1964)
• Kamau — Anthony Joseph (2021)
• Peace Begins Within — Zara McFarlane (2017)
• Elastic Rock — Nucleus (Ian Carr) (1970)

Sources

• EN : British jazz

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