Alex Welsh

Alex Welsh ( born July 9, 1929 in Edinburgh, Scotland, † June 25, 1982 in London) was a British jazz musician (cornet / trumpet, vocals, band leader ).

Welah belonged first in Leith Leith Silver band before he played in Archie Semple 's Capital Jazz Band and moved to London in the early 1950s. Since the 1950s, the core of the band of Welsh were beside him clarinetist Archie Semple, pianist Fred Hunt, trombonist Roy Crimmings and drummer Lenny Hastings; later he made ​​sure that each position of the band was busy with a good instrumentalists. During the period of " Traditional Jazz revival " the group played in clubs and gave concerts in greater, but also for broadcasting. Their records included with pieces such as "Music of the Mauve Decade ," " Echoes of Chicago " or " Melrose Folio " some classics of British jazz. 1957 Welsh refused the offer to play in the band of Jack Teagarden. In the 1960s, he had to recast the band stayed while continuing to quality and musical diversity. Increasingly came to the band with American guests like Earl Hines, Henry " Red" Allen, Bill Coleman, Wild Bill Davison, Peanuts Hucko, Bud Freeman, Rex Stewart, Dicky Wells and Ruby Braff. 1967 played the Welsh at the jazz festival of Antibes, 1968 at the Newport Jazz Festival, and from 1971 to the annually organized Memorial to Louis Armstrong. In the coming years, he tried to update the musical program his band through interpretations of soul and Poptiteln and some modern jazz solos, before returning to the pure Dixieland jazz from 1977.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Vintage Alex Welsh 1955-1956 ( Lake, 1955 /56)
• Dixieland to Duke / The Melrose Folio ( Lake 1957 /60)
• One strike ( Lake, 1966)
• Classic Concert ( 1971)
• Alex Welsh. Rec October 14, 1971. Hygiene-Museum Dresden ( AMIGA 855390/1974 )

Lexical entry

• Mark White: The Observer 's Book of Jazz. London, Warner, 1978