real magic - lets hope for a real new revival : once played with his band as trumpeter (stand in for 2 numbers) in camberley in 60s - what a moment! john pitt
Thanks for posting the video clip, it was great to see Ken playing again after all these years. Do you have any other video clips showing Ken playing?
This is creame. I now Monty, but I didn't now Ken before I went to youtube. But this the best of the best. He´stand theire and sing a song. I just love him.,
WONDERFUL JAZZ. TheOskarsmamma IF YOU GET TO READ THIS CAN YOU GO TO YOUR SITE AND READ MY MESSAGE TO YOU ABOUT YOUR DAD MICKEY ASHMAN PLEASE.5 MORE WELL EARNED STARS,TA FOR SHARING.
Perfect played music with feelings, melody and heart and (!) instruments! What else do music need? Simply great! Ken is my favourite in New Orleans Jazz and it´s too bad i´d never had the chance to see a concert. Wish i´ve could met him in this world. Well, someday i think, it will be, cause i´m sure, they play this wonderful music up there :-)
I first heard the Ken Colyer band at the Shakespear Hotel in Woolwich S.E.18 in the fifties and immediatly became addicted to N O Jazz. I was "Blown Way'!
I saw Ken Colyer's band a few times in Kingston in the 1970's. I did not realise at the time how famous he was, knowing very little about jazz at the time, but I loved this music. It was a pub which regularly had free jazz. (I think it might have been called the Grey Horse & was near the railway station.)
When I was kid in the 50,s before rock & roll, Trad jazz was what teenagers loved. One of the greatest was Ken Colyer. I seem to remember listening to his records and hearing the bands feet stamping on the floorboards of the stage and their driving rhytmh. It was so authentic as if you were there in the local scout hall. fantastic memories.
Superb! I've been a Colyer devotee for over 40 years and never tire of listening to his many recordings. What a pity it wasn't with one of Ken's own bands. Nevertheless to see and hear Monty Sunshine, Micky Ashman etc. was nice. The Guv'nor lives on.
OMG Studio 51 takes me back a bit. We went there several times sitting on the floor like a bunch of hippies. Trouble is we all used to drink like fish in the Porcupine opposite in those days waiting for it to open at midnight so I can't remember exactly who I saw there all those years ago apart from Ken. Might have been the Stones, but suggestions welcome to jog my failing memory. I think we saw Ken in Faversham as well. Great following in those days. I lived in Chatham, Kent at the time.
In my opinion this is the best recording there is of Ken Colyer-both of his playing quality and singing style. I have everything that he ever published on records and/or tapes and CD's.( Skiffle,Jazz band and his unfortunate in my opinion Omega Brass Band) It's a shame that he was apparently guesting or became a member of Monty Sunshines Band, and not playing with his own band,but maybe that's what was needed to bring out the best in him.
I've been listening to New Orleans Jazz for 60 years and played some. This video gives me the same amazing feeling of joy and sadness that I got when I first started listening.
I keep coming back to this ... from my point of view, pretty near perfect ... that tone, that sense of utter uncompromising commitment, and probably the widest vibrato in the business! Can this really be the only existing film/video clip of the Guv'nor actually playing? Surely not! Someone - somewhere ... ?
This is the best, I love Ken's playing. We're doing a gig in 2 weeks for the Ken Colyer Trust at Hemsby, Norfolk. Looking forward to that and seeing old jazzheroes like Sammy Rimmington in action. It's too bad there aren't many youngsters into the jazzscene nowadays. It would be nice to share this with everybody who's into good, fine music.
Thank you for posting this wonderful clip. It really takes me back to April of 1953, when I recorded Ken w. Chris Barber, Monty, Lonnie Donegan, Jim Bay and Ron Bowden for those early Storyville and Tempo releases. Hard to believe it was 53 years ago!
That was deliberate. We recorded in an empty ballroom (the Gentofte Hotel) in an attempt to emulate the sound of the American Music recordings Bill Russell did of Bunk and others.
Beautiful live non-electronic free range music. I saw Ken at the Festival Hall festival of jazz 1956 (?) He played this then. I am all nostalgic now. )-:
It might interest you that I only had 1 mic (a Bang & Olufsen ribbon. The recorder was also a B&O) and had to place it rather far from the bandstand. A long row of chairs enabled Ken to walk up to the mic for his vocals.
Last point. Have you noticed the echo in the hall on this clip? Bet they had more than one mike but slightly recalls those early records. Thank you for your time.
Ken Colyer - the Guv'nor! Never equalled! Great Newport Street eh? - those were the days ... Anty66, this is for you: "It's never too late to become the person you might have been." You listen to Ken and you listen to a guy telling you his life ...
Saw Ken play at Leeds Town Hall in the fifties! I was honoured to play on the same stage during a TA Band Contest in the sixfies. A rare and brilliant record of Ken and Monty. Big Al
A real treasure here! Lovely band and Ken sounds great. Brings back memories of Studio 51 in Gt Newport Street in the late 1950's - what sessions they were! Shame he had to give up his regular band in 1971, after his bout with stomach cancer.
I've been looking for Ken Colyer since I joined YouTube. What a great performance and what a great jazz singer as well as trumpeter. Too bad Ken Colyer and Chris Barber couldn't get along.
real magic - lets hope for a real new revival : once played with his band as trumpeter (stand in for 2 numbers) in camberley in 60s - what a moment! john pitt
johnpittandval 5 days ago
Thanks for posting the video clip, it was great to see Ken playing again after all these years. Do you have any other video clips showing Ken playing?
Brian
teacher4774 4 months ago
The Guv'nor and Monty together - New Orleans Jazz as it should be played!
Geoff Downs said to me on one occasion that drummers today were not drummers, but cymbalists. How true - they could certainly build sheds though.
MrScotjazz 8 months ago
Awesome
petekay62 8 months ago
This is creame. I now Monty, but I didn't now Ken before I went to youtube. But this the best of the best. He´stand theire and sing a song. I just love him.,
TorbenGalster 11 months ago 3
みんなソロはバツグンにうまいなぁ♪
歌っているものなあ
sazanami31jp 1 year ago
WONDERFUL JAZZ. TheOskarsmamma IF YOU GET TO READ THIS CAN YOU GO TO YOUR SITE AND READ MY MESSAGE TO YOU ABOUT YOUR DAD MICKEY ASHMAN PLEASE.5 MORE WELL EARNED STARS,TA FOR SHARING.
drjazzisme 1 year ago
2 words,PURE MAGIC
Teddyb1939 1 year ago
Perfect played music with feelings, melody and heart and (!) instruments! What else do music need? Simply great! Ken is my favourite in New Orleans Jazz and it´s too bad i´d never had the chance to see a concert. Wish i´ve could met him in this world. Well, someday i think, it will be, cause i´m sure, they play this wonderful music up there :-)
B0L0A0C0K0E0R 1 year ago
This is classic Ken and a great song, it's wonderful to see a film of him singing this.
ORFSB 1 year ago 2
TANTA ROBA
Really great feeling and trueness
DAVO1984FI 1 year ago
what a great band, heard ken coyler back in the fifties back in europe monty one of the best in tehe world fvs usa
pstorckpete 1 year ago
What a shame he left us so early. Ken will rest in peace for ever and Ben Rinia's Memorial Band will keep him alive !
pmmdrt 1 year ago
I first heard the Ken Colyer band at the Shakespear Hotel in Woolwich S.E.18 in the fifties and immediatly became addicted to N O Jazz. I was "Blown Way'!
Denzed4u 2 years ago
its a great video and the band is second to none, remember ken and monty from europe, thaks for giving us the clip fsp
pstorckpete 2 years ago 3
Lovely to see my dad,Micky Ashman, doing what he does best along with Ken and Montys band.
Will have to show him this clip - he will have many wonderful stories to tell me afterwards.
Thanks for putting this up on youtube - please don't take it away!
TheOskarsmamma 2 years ago
I saw Ken Colyer's band a few times in Kingston in the 1970's. I did not realise at the time how famous he was, knowing very little about jazz at the time, but I loved this music. It was a pub which regularly had free jazz. (I think it might have been called the Grey Horse & was near the railway station.)
katherine232 2 years ago
When I was kid in the 50,s before rock & roll, Trad jazz was what teenagers loved. One of the greatest was Ken Colyer. I seem to remember listening to his records and hearing the bands feet stamping on the floorboards of the stage and their driving rhytmh. It was so authentic as if you were there in the local scout hall. fantastic memories.
248harry 3 years ago
Great memories flood my old brain down in the all nighter sessioms were happy times indeed Thanks again Ken your music lives on
dreembots 3 years ago
Superb. Ken and Monty as good as if not better than they were in the 50's/early 60's. Has anyone got Ken playing "Corina Corina" ?
andyyearsley 3 years ago
See jphar. Loaded it last month
jphar 3 years ago
Superb! I've been a Colyer devotee for over 40 years and never tire of listening to his many recordings. What a pity it wasn't with one of Ken's own bands. Nevertheless to see and hear Monty Sunshine, Micky Ashman etc. was nice. The Guv'nor lives on.
wonderue 3 years ago
OMG Studio 51 takes me back a bit. We went there several times sitting on the floor like a bunch of hippies. Trouble is we all used to drink like fish in the Porcupine opposite in those days waiting for it to open at midnight so I can't remember exactly who I saw there all those years ago apart from Ken. Might have been the Stones, but suggestions welcome to jog my failing memory. I think we saw Ken in Faversham as well. Great following in those days. I lived in Chatham, Kent at the time.
Dougg1942 3 years ago
Ken's work is never dated. This version is as fresh as ever and Ken was indeed one of the Trad
greats. Could listen to his work all night.
keredwick 3 years ago 4
Many thanks, absolutely brilliant.
I was a great fan of Ken's through the late 50's and into 70's(Studio 51) and The Orchard Spot, Many happy memories of the very best UK trad band.
peteb43 4 years ago 4
Thank you! From Russia with LOVE!M.V/
mkhailvinogradov 4 years ago 4
The Guv'nor .. that was fantastic.
Who else can play with such feeling.
mahoganyhall 4 years ago 8
I've got another short sequence with Ken Colyer. I just puted it on Youtupe under the title "Ken Colyer Just A Little While to Stay Here"
klikonojazz 4 years ago 2
Still searching for another bit of film - this is the only one!
PMDVD 4 years ago
I just loaded another sequence with Ken Colyer on Youtube !
klikonojazz 4 years ago 3
Thanks!!!
COLYERFAN 3 years ago
absolutely fabulous what a great jazz man
BUBBS369 4 years ago 4
In my opinion this is the best recording there is of Ken Colyer-both of his playing quality and singing style. I have everything that he ever published on records and/or tapes and CD's.( Skiffle,Jazz band and his unfortunate in my opinion Omega Brass Band) It's a shame that he was apparently guesting or became a member of Monty Sunshines Band, and not playing with his own band,but maybe that's what was needed to bring out the best in him.
lac2582877 4 years ago 3
smooth-nice
trugsdale 4 years ago 3
Thank you!
Lainiodurrant 4 years ago 2
I've been listening to New Orleans Jazz for 60 years and played some. This video gives me the same amazing feeling of joy and sadness that I got when I first started listening.
EndeavourAlways 4 years ago 7
From New Orleans to London and wherever! The Guv'nor tells it like it should be. Every "traddie" since should acknowledge the debt.
Jazzerrocks 4 years ago 5
I keep coming back to this ... from my point of view, pretty near perfect ... that tone, that sense of utter uncompromising commitment, and probably the widest vibrato in the business! Can this really be the only existing film/video clip of the Guv'nor actually playing? Surely not! Someone - somewhere ... ?
JazzWildcard 4 years ago 4
This is the best, I love Ken's playing. We're doing a gig in 2 weeks for the Ken Colyer Trust at Hemsby, Norfolk. Looking forward to that and seeing old jazzheroes like Sammy Rimmington in action. It's too bad there aren't many youngsters into the jazzscene nowadays. It would be nice to share this with everybody who's into good, fine music.
thanx for posting
bobias 4 years ago 3
Thank you for posting this wonderful clip. It really takes me back to April of 1953, when I recorded Ken w. Chris Barber, Monty, Lonnie Donegan, Jim Bay and Ron Bowden for those early Storyville and Tempo releases. Hard to believe it was 53 years ago!
ChrisAlbertson 4 years ago 2
Still got them. Some sound as if they were recorded in a cave.
corksand 4 years ago 2
That was deliberate. We recorded in an empty ballroom (the Gentofte Hotel) in an attempt to emulate the sound of the American Music recordings Bill Russell did of Bunk and others.
ChrisAlbertson 4 years ago 2
Beautiful live non-electronic free range music. I saw Ken at the Festival Hall festival of jazz 1956 (?) He played this then. I am all nostalgic now. )-:
corksand 4 years ago 2
It might interest you that I only had 1 mic (a Bang & Olufsen ribbon. The recorder was also a B&O) and had to place it rather far from the bandstand. A long row of chairs enabled Ken to walk up to the mic for his vocals.
ChrisAlbertson 4 years ago
Last point. Have you noticed the echo in the hall on this clip? Bet they had more than one mike but slightly recalls those early records. Thank you for your time.
corksand 4 years ago
This is still the only video of Ken actually playing!
DADRENO 4 years ago
Ken Colyer - the Guv'nor! Never equalled! Great Newport Street eh? - those were the days ... Anty66, this is for you: "It's never too late to become the person you might have been." You listen to Ken and you listen to a guy telling you his life ...
JazzWildcard 4 years ago
This is fast becoming one of my favourites. I'm playing it every day! Like the banjo too, wish I could play but at 67 it's a bit late now. Or is it?
anty66 4 years ago
It's never too late!
oldtimejazzfan 4 years ago
Well done, Ingo ! Just fantastic !!!
elena127 4 years ago
Great!! Any more video of Ken stashed away anywhere?
COLYERFAN 4 years ago
Saw Ken play at Leeds Town Hall in the fifties! I was honoured to play on the same stage during a TA Band Contest in the sixfies. A rare and brilliant record of Ken and Monty. Big Al
DADRENO 4 years ago
A real treasure here! Lovely band and Ken sounds great. Brings back memories of Studio 51 in Gt Newport Street in the late 1950's - what sessions they were! Shame he had to give up his regular band in 1971, after his bout with stomach cancer.
BertyBloggs 4 years ago
thanks a lot for the lineup info. I must have played this video fifty times, and I have passed it on to many friends. Superb !
4berry2 5 years ago
Here is the line-up of Monty Sunshine´s Band:
Monty Sunshine, clarinet Alan Gresty , trumpet
Eddie Blashfield , trombone Barrey Drew, banjo
Mickey Ashman, baß Geoff Downs, drums
skitdat 5 years ago 2
Superb recording of Ken.
I'm passing it on to all my jazz friends
tradjazz10 5 years ago
Great to see Ken with Montys band,brings back memories of Studio 51 in Great Newport Street in the early sixties
railpulley 5 years ago
magnificent !! What a guy was Ken - and the music is great.
4berry2 5 years ago
I've been looking for Ken Colyer since I joined YouTube. What a great performance and what a great jazz singer as well as trumpeter. Too bad Ken Colyer and Chris Barber couldn't get along.
pugmire1 5 years ago
I just keep looking at the Tube and see this great stuf being performed . Don't ever take it off, You here!!!! Thank you for shearing.
joevanrossem 5 years ago
Yes, this is a real find and captures Ken in a great performance on the only clip I have seen of him playing. Many thanks and keep swingin'.
kpjjazz 5 years ago 2
Ingo, wow! The first film I ever saw of Ken playing. I would love to be able to post it as well.Good film quality as well.
ilbofilms 5 years ago