Among his many projects for his Lake label, years ago Paul Adams acquired and reissued most of the British trad jazz recordings that were originally put out by the Esquire label including the five CDs in his Delving Back series and the five CDs covered here in a series titled The Great Revival: Traditional Jazz 1949-58.
Each of the latter features several bands from the prime years of the British trad movement, providing early glimpses at some major names along with sessions by forgotten but worthy bands of the period. In exploring the British trad boom of the 1950s, one is struck by the sheer quantity of excellent (if sometimes now-obscure) recordings, and the variety which ranges from 1920s jazz and Chicago-style Dixieland dates to small-group swing and sessions that are closer to the music of Bunk Johnson and George Lewis.
Vol. 1 in this series focuses on Bobby Mickleburgh’s Bobcats, the Tony Short Trio, Cy Laurie, and the Christie Brothers Stompers. Mickleburgh was an exuberant trumpeter who leads a hard-driving sextet, pianist Short performs two numbers with a trio that includes clarinetist Pip Gaskell, the Johnny Dodds-inspired clarinetist Laurie is featured with two different groups (including rare titles from 1951 with a quartet that includes trumpeter Les Jowett), and the Christie Brothers Stompers (also from 1951) is represented by eight somewhat ragged ensemble-orie
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