Trad. Jazz Radio is one year old!

Dear friends and listeners of Trad. Jazz Radio.
We have just past the point of renewing the yearly contract with "Live 365" and thanks to the support, enthusiasm (and advertising) I'm happy to tell you that TJR will be on air for at least another next twelve months. The station is now regularly getting at least 1500 people tuning in each month and their is rarely a moment when at least one person isn't tuning into TJR from around the globe.
The playlist is changed around on a "bit by bit" basis, meaning that I add and delete tracks in sections since uploading takes a bit of time. You may have recently heard some very rare tracks (submitted from John Westwood in Spain) of Chris Barbers earliest recordings. These are little "gems" and are unique to TJR. Many thanks to all the bands and individuals who have taken the initiative of sending me their CD to get played and of course the people who have placed adverts with TJR who have made it financially possible for TJR to continue.
The biggest thanks of all must go to you, dear listener, who, without your support, TJR would have faded and died. Your enthusiasm and support make my efforts all worth while.
Keep sending in your e-mails, suggestions, CDs and request via my website at www.SeanMoyses.com and once again, thanks for your enthusiasm in Trad. Jazz Radio.

Sean Moyses.

Roger Marks Armada Jazz Band

I have recently uploaded a few tracks and an audio advert for the Armada Jazz Band, a West Country group from the United Kingdom led by trombonist Roger Marks. The band has been in exsistence quite a time and was reformed in 1996 to play festivals and clubs around the UK. The album featured on TJR at the moment is called "Windjammer" and is issued by Leap Frog Records. The band is:-
Roger Marks (trombone) John Shillito (trumpet and vocals) Ken Rennison (sporano and alto sax.) Eddie Edwards (banjo) Terry Turland (bass guitar) and Terry Lidiard (drums).
The CD features the following tracks:- Marching through Georgia, The glory of love, Caberet, Fidgety feet, Our love is here to stay, Moose march, Georgia on my mind, Lady of Spain, Bei mir bist du schön, Martha, The way you look tonight, Too busy and the ever popular What a wonderful world.
To find out more about the Armada Jazz Band go to www.Armadajazz.co.uk where you will find the bands' itinery, CD, booking contacts and background information.

Chris Barber's first ever recordings now on TJR.

Hi Friends.
For some time I've been mucking about putting old tapes and cassettes onto CDs. Recently I've been trying to get some of the old discs onto CD (which really hasn'tbeen a problem) and onto MP3 files (which has!). Now I think I've managed to MP3 my two Chris Barber Tempo 78's which were cut in their Hampstead studio on 11 Oct 1949. So we have Hugh Middleton- cornet, Alex Revell- clarinet, Chris- trombone, Colin Bennett- piano, Arthur Huxley- banjo and myself drums on drums.
The titles are:-
TR557A Mabel's Dream,
TR558A Working Man Blues,
TR559A Gatemouth,
TR560A Doctor Jazz.
These were the very first recordings made by Chris. Alex, Colin and I had made some earlier 78's with other bands but these "Tempo" label sides are very hard to find now and I thought you might like to hear them -"warts and all", as the saying goes. That is, of course, if my MP3 compression has worked properly!
If it's all producing half-way decent results with my present (very elementary) set-up here, I might spend a few pension-pennies on "upgrading" some of the bits. Hope you don't mind being used as the proverbial 'guinea pig'!
Keep the discs spinning....
Cheers,
John Westwood