Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)

Subject: RE: Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)
From: Leadbelly
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 12:29 PM

There are a lot of tracks on Youtube like
I love you Samantha,Sukiyaki and many others. Have a stop, look and listen!
It's worthwhile.

Subject: RE: Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)
From: GUEST,PJC (Pete Corrigan)
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 07:03 AM

Hi I am cleaning up the one I have been given digitally.

I was also a regular at that club.

Subject: RE: Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 05:03 AM

Hi PJC,
Good to know it hasn't been lost. I used to hear it in the Capricorn drinking club in Greek Street, when it was owned by Acker Bilk's brother Dave. They had a copy there. Roy James ex Bilk banjo/guitar player used to run things there and it was a great gathering place for a while.

Hoot

Subject: RE: Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)
From: GUEST,PJC
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 03:13 AM

To Hootenanny

Yes I have the PYE JAZZ Demo 7NJ 2071-5 Advanced Promotion Copy that belonged to Ken, given to me by his son.

Ken was a friend for over 40 years, miss him very much.

PJC

Subject: RE: Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 08 Mar 13 - 03:21 PM

I wasn't a big fan of the trad jazz back in the day, but I'm wiser now and listening to Kenny's version of Midnight in Moscow I can marvel at the great interplay between the instruments.
Wonderful stuff!

Kenny plays Moscow!

Subject: RE: Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)
From: goatfell
Date: 08 Mar 13 - 03:04 PM

R.I.P Kenny

Subject: RE: Obit: UK Jazzman Kenny Ball (1930-2013)
From: bradfordian
Date: 08 Mar 13 - 06:56 AM

Hey, let's dust off those Ball Barber & Bilk LPs and do a bit of reminising for the great era of British Trad Jazz

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 05:55 PM

RIP Kenny

I will play Midnight in Moscow on Church organ this Sunday as my tribute to a musician who has given a lot of people a lot of enjoyment over many years!

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 12:56 PM

Met him once at a gig in Wem (don't ask...). Nice bloke, great trumpet player. RIP.

Pete

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 12:26 PM

Friends who saw him recently said he had someone else playing trumpet & his son singing. Still, he had a long innings. Another part of my teens gone.

RtS

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 12:14 PM

Does anybody here know about the alternative version that Kenny made of his big hit "Hello Dolly" ? It was called "Hello Solly" about a circumcision that went wrong.

Hoot

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: Jim McLean
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 08:37 AM

I produced two LPs with Kenny and found him a lovely, funny man. Condolences to his family.

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: Jack Campin
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 08:35 AM

I can't recall anybody as well known whose on-line biographies have so little personal detail. There's even less than on Thomas Pynchon. What gives?

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: alanabit
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 08:16 AM

Another legend from my childhood passes. I remember my Mum went to one of his gigs reluctantly back in the early sixties - and she came back totally won over. He was playing up until January - a real trooper. RIP.

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 08:06 AM

I remeber 'stomping' to Midnight In Moscow as a teenager. RIP Mr Ball.

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: Mr Happy
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 07:42 AM

One of the best!

Subject: RE: Obit: Kenny Ball
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Mar 13 - 07:26 AM

A great player. Far more of a jazzman than his band's pop successes implied.
RIP Kenny