Ken Colyer: English trumpeter Ken Colyer was born on this day in 1928, and died just before his sixtieth birthday. We’ll listen to a number of his influential New Orleans style recordings made between 1953 and 1972.
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Isle of Capri
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Harlem Rag
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Too Busy
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Shimme Sha Wabble
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Lord, Lord, Lord
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Moose March
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Postman’s Lament
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: The Decca Years Volume 6
Tune: Tuxedo Rag
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: Colyer Plays Standards
Tune: Oh! You Beautiful Doll
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: Colyer Plays Standards
Tune: Dinah
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: In the Sweet Bye and Bye
Tune: Beale Street Blues
Label: Upbeat Jazz
Artist: Ken Colyer Skiffle Group
Album: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Tune: House Rent Stomp
Label: Upbeat Jazz
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Tune: Riverside Blues
Label: Upbeat Jazz
Artist: Ken Colyer & Little Brother Montgomery
Album: This Is the Blues
Tune: Buddy Bolden’s Blues
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: This Is the Blues
Tune: Aunt Hagar’s Blues
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: This Is the Blues
Tune: Tishomingo Blues
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: This Is the Blues
Tune: Postman’s Lament
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen
Album: This Is the Blues
Tune: Darkness On the Delta
Label: Lake
Artist: Ken Colyer’s All Stars
Album: The Sunny Side of Ken Colyer
Tune: Sunny Side of the Street
Label: Upbeat Jazz
Artist: Ken Colyer’s All Stars
Album: The Sunny Side of Ken Colyer
Tune: Canal Street Blues
Label: Upbeat Jazz
Artist: Ken Colyer’s All Stars
Album: The Sunny Side of Ken Colyer
Tune: You Always Hurt the One You Love
Label: Upbeat Jazz
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