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The Jazz Rag 155

Spring 2019

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Packed with the usual array of news, reviews and features, including:
- The scandalous truth about the death of Nat Gonella
- Simon Spillett on life after Tubby Hayes
- Dick Laurie on an unsavoury brush with Pizza Express founder Peter Boizot
- Scott Yanow runs the rule over the class of 1919
- Andrew Liddle celebrates Dave Bartholemew’s 100th birthday
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BLUES & RHYTHM REVUE VOL.1: KING PLEASURE AND THE BISCUIT BOYS
Catalogue number BEARCD41
Track listing:
- Kidney Stew Blues
- What More Do You Want Me To Do?
- Blues For My Baby
- That’s Fine The Way To Treat Your Woman
- Since I Fell For You
- Let The Good Times Roll
- Fools Paradise
- What Can I Do?
- Harvard Blues
- Now Baby Or Never
- So Tired
- Tear Drops from My Eyes
- Goin’ To Chicago
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An exhibition of rarely seen Jazz and Blues photography from the 1960s by Jim Simpson, taken in Birmingham.
The musicians, from New York, Chicago, Mississippi, New Orleans, Kansas City and London have one thing in common. They were all on international tours and were photographed in Birmingham.
Among the subjects are Tommy Tucker, who had a huge hit with Hi Heeled Sneakers, touring coast to coast co-headlining with Ray Charles. Buddy Guy, photographed as a shy but smartly dressed 27 year old in the College of Advanced Technology, now Aston University, is now the grand old man of Chicago Blues.
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All photos copyright Jim Simpson

Jagger, The Killer and The Prettiest Man In Rock and Roll
Before founding Big Bear Music in 1968, Jim Simpson worked as a photographer for Melody Maker and Midland Beat. In this interview on BBC WM’s The Sunny and Shay Show, he talks about his experiences of capturing such legendary figures as The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Nina Simone on film.
To view the photos featured in the exhibition at Lee Longlands, click here. All of them are available to purchase as prints from Havill & Travis gallery, Harborne, Birmingham