unique rare lp british modern jazz acetate eric burdon the animals john walters

	£		175
	$		232

This is a two sided full length acetate type lp, it plays through without any major glitches, grading VG VG+ The Mighty Joe Young Jazzmen were a Newcastle Upon Tyne modern jazz group from the late 50's through to the mid sixties, John Walters -John Peels producer played trumpet with them, Eric Burdon sat in with them on harp in the early days  when they played live - he is not on this obviously - I do not know of another copy of this lp in existence and I have looked long and hard and asked about The music is modern jazz, my dad had a listen to side 1, no tunes he could recognise he said it sounded more like a jam session, so I am assuming original material as my dad has heard a lot of jazz. lots of links on this scene in newcastle: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle-2/ (even a pic of eric with jazz group on here) http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/bill-harper-on-joe-young.html http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/eric-burdon-how-newcastle-city-11551485 Jazz in the 60s in Newcastle and surrounding district but there was so much of it. There were the respectable places like the City Hall (Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Ornette Coleman and many blues artists) and the Connaught Hall (Sonny Boy Williamson and the Alex Welsh Band). Then there were the less salubrious places like the Downbeat in Carliol Square and the Melbourne Street Jazz Club. This montage is from the Vieux Carre band’s website and shows them paying their last respects to Melbourne Street: montage_5 by alfred stone, on Flickr I didn’t make it to the Downbeat (it might have been something to do with its fearsome reputation for hippies and drugs) or the Melbourne Street club (I was too young I think) but most of the Jazz bands migrated to the New Orleans Jazz Club. The Club A’Gogo started off with a separate Jazz Lounge but seemed in its latter years to be invaded by R&B bands. There were other venues like the Corner House, the Bridge Hotel, the Skiff at Derwenthaugh and many more too numerous to mention. There are some recollections of the A’Gogo here: http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/club-agogo-newcastle/ Lance Liddle has a wonderful collection of old pictures of the Jazz scene here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lanceliddle/Local802# For the current scene and a few nostalgic moments try: http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/ The Newcastle Big Band was around in those days too and played in the University building in the Haymarket. The Emcee 5 (Mike and Ian Carr) were in the process of getting established in London and Mike and Ian would occasionally drop in to sit in with local bands. My favourite haunt was the New Orleans Jazz Club housed in the cellar of the Hawthorn Inn at the top of Forth Banks (right hand frame of the montage) now an Indian restaurant. It was a dark and dismal place full of smoke and sweaty bodies but it was probably the only venue at the time that fielded Jazz six nights a week. Wednesday and Saturday featured the Mighty Joe Young Jazzmen who were modernish; the other nights were for more traditional outfits. The club was owned by a Pole called Jurich with a surname which I can neither spell nor pronounce. Alan Price became a regular visitor in the time between leaving the Animals and establishing the Alan Price Set. He even “stole” Joe Young’s trumpet player, John Walters who later became well known as John Peel’s producer and a broadcaster in his own right.