OOPS! mea culpa. I got some dates mixed up in the third paragraph of the previous posting. It was 1958 not 1953.

The EVENING STANDARD article was published on Monday 17 March 1958, as an IN LONDIN LAST NIGHT piece, so Dean Gitter was at the Ballads and Blues on 16 March 1958.

Not sure how that happened - maybe a mix up with articles on the "Ballads and Blues" radio programmes in March/April 1953.