Trumpeter/bass Gerry Salisbury ex Mick Mulligan, Freddy Randall and Alex Welsh ran a jazz club in Dereham and was a mate of Diz. We had Diz perform for us on several occasions. I have got tapes of the concerts, the music and chat are a knockout. About requests he said
"we do any requests . . . from the lowly half of bitter request right up to the delux jeroboam of champagne request". Other interludes included, "Pigmys from Africa would travel all the way to North Yorkshire to dip their arrows in my mum's soup". "Are we in tune?, this guitar is in tune with a piano in Bristol" "We are both plugged into the same amp which is reconstituted from an old Yorkshire pie warmer" And perhaps on a serious note, "the two greatest guitarists that ever lived were Teddy Bun and Django Reinhardt – notice that Lonnie Donnegan is not in there"

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R Nelson