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.