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APPULDURCOMBE House will be jazzing things up this weekend. Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen will lead the line-up at the house's midsummer jazz concert tomorrow night. Kenny first entered the UK charts ...
The Kenny Ball Jazzmen, pictured in 1969, had 13 top 30 hits in the 1960s The Kenny Ball Jazzmen will continue despite the death of their founder and leader. The jazz star's son Keith told BBC ...
Loughborough Town Hall brings us a fine pick of the UK's best Jazz acts this June. Whether you love the traditional jazz of Kenny Ball or the hiphop infused sounds of Soweto Kinch, jazz-lovers ...
Description: This DVD features the legendary Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen in one incredible live performance. For more than forty years Kenny Ball has flown the flag for his particular brand of ...
The programme features contributions from Radio 2's very own Brian Matthew, who helped launch Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen on the radio show Easy Beat. Listeners will also get to hear from Kenny's ...
He was best known as the lead trumpet player in the band Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen in the late 1950s ... passed away on the morning of 7 March. David Sillito reports.
UK trumpet-playing jazz legend Kenny Ball has died aged 82. Ball was one of the best known and most loved names in British jazz music, and with his band The Jazzmen was at the forefront of the ...
The hour-long session by the Kenny Ball Jazzmen featured about a dozen numbers, including a string of the band's 1960s hit singles, including Samantha, Sukiyaki, March of the Siamese Children and ...
It was bought by a Southampton fan from a record store on Broadway, New York when Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen were as big as The Beatles. “I can’t believe it,” said Kenny as he scribbled his ...
The Kenny Ball Jazzmen will continue despite the death of their founder and leader. The jazz star's son Keith told BBC News: "The legend lives on. We will go on playing and touring as long as ...