Tony Davies did indeed start as as a jazz musician altho'I think he was a teacher during the day. He played at the Cavern in Liverpool,then a jazz club and long before that other group - what was it, the Bugs or something - appeared there. He and Mick Groves started the Lonnie Donegan skiffle club at the Cavern and encourged interest in Lead Belly etc. When this club soon faded away, they formed the Spinners and performed at Samson and Barlow's, a Liverpool restaurant. They called themselves the Spinners after the Weavers and because they were from Lancashire and that was the cotton spinning county. I particular remember Tony Davis saying that when the group first formed.
DocJ