THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS

Original New Orleans Jazz • United Kingdom
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The band was formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1984 by trumpeter Mike Durham. It specialises in classic hot jazz of the 1920’s (there are over 600 tunes in the band’s book), along with some of the “hot dance” tunes of the era, like The Charleston. Favourite sources include the music of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, and so on. Alternatively, with guitar and string bass rather than banjo and tuba, the Rhythm Kings can play a programme of 1930’s Swing music, featuring the works of Fats Waller and his contemporaries.

The band is well-known both nationally and internationally on the jazz club and festival circuit (over 40 festival appearances in the past five years, many of them repeat bookings) and has played in the U.S.A., France, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Holland as well as all over the U.K. Major venues played include London’s famous 100 Club, as
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THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS Stay Out Of The South album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stay Out Of The South
Original New Orleans Jazz 1989
THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS Bouncing Around album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bouncing Around
Original New Orleans Jazz 1992
THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS Way Up North album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Way Up North
Original New Orleans Jazz 1992
THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS Take A Good Look At Mine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Take A Good Look At Mine
Original New Orleans Jazz 1993
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WJRK Play "The Good Old Good Ones"
Original New Orleans Jazz 1995
THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS Shake ’Em Loose album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Shake ’Em Loose
Original New Orleans Jazz 1995
THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS Jazz Lips album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Lips
Original New Orleans Jazz 1999

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THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS W.J.R.K. Live At Bude Jazz Festival album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
W.J.R.K. Live At Bude Jazz Festival
Original New Orleans Jazz 1990
THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS The Music Of Clarence Williams (with Bent Persson & Keith Nichols) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Music Of Clarence Williams (with Bent Persson & Keith Nichols)
Original New Orleans Jazz 2000
THE WEST JESMOND RHYTHM KINGS Jubilee Stomp ( with Keith Nichols) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jubilee Stomp ( with Keith Nichols)
Original New Orleans Jazz 2002

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