Cool Jazz NOSTALGIA. The exciting new Jazz Smugglers show

This is Cool Jazz NOSTALGIA from the 50's. A fantastic decade.

We would like to get it into the Petworth, Arundel and Selsey Festivals - 

any chance, chaps? We are in this years' Festivals at Brighton, Chichester and Midhurst  

We'll do a pub, or a field with a barbecue, or a Village Hall, what do you think?

Everest was climbed 4 days before Queen Elizabeth 11 was crowned in June 1953

The Festival of Britain and the Festival Hall was a great success, 

Bill Hailey launched Rock and Roll with the Comets

National Service ended - I could have been this chap

Roger Bannister ran the 1st 4-mile mile

The Korean War finished.

Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue, the biggest selling jazz record of all time. Modal jazz, cool

 

Our band, Jazz Smugglers, is playing a tribute to this wonderful era with a show called 

Cool Jazz NOSTALGIA

This is what it says on the can

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The most watchable octet in Sussex. Beautiful songs such as All the things you are Ella Fitzgerald / Girl from Ipanema Stan Getz / Loverman Billie Holliday / Blue Moon June Christy / So What Miles Davis / Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock / How High the Moon Les Paul / Summertime - everyone

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There is a high degree of audience involvement. We've played it for the first time at Cocking Village and we all had a Super time. "Fantastic", Sue called it. See the blog before this.

These are the relevant website pages.

The new Cool Jazz Nostalgia Show page
We've changed the front page, you'll see Nostalgia there
I've highlighted the clips people can hear us play
This workshop page gets very high traffic

John
jazzsmugglers@yahoo.co.uk