Friday On My Mind 53 (addendum.) RIP Kenny Ball
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music at 18:54 on 7 March 2013
I heard today that jazz trumpeter Kenny Ball has died.
My eldest brother was into trad jazz in the early 1960s and had several of Kenny’s singles. Some of those songs were in the run of early 1960s singles I included in this category about two years ago.
Here’s the band playing I Wanna Be Like You, one of the songs from the Disney version of The Jungle Book. I remember seeing them perform this on television – probably before I ever saw the relevant clip from the film.
It has to be said this performance is of its time.
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen: I Wanna Be Like You
Kenny Ball (Kenneth Daniel Ball): 22/5/1930-7/3/2013. So it goes.
Tags: Disney, I Wanna Be like You, Kenny Ball, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, The Jungle Book
Denis Cullinan
7 March 2013 at 20:20
Remember George Melly the wacky jazz man who used to wear black suits, a black shirt, and a glow-in-the-dark tie? When he lost the function of his parts “down there” he expressed relief that”it felt like I was being unchained from a lunatic.” In his case the “lunatic” word hit the nail on the head.
jackdeighton
7 March 2013 at 22:16
Yes Denis,
I do remember George Melly – especially singing Jeepers Creepers.
“Jeepers Creepers, where d’you get them peepers?”
George was one of those glorious British eccentrics we don’t seem to have enough of any more.