NAT GONELLA
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Nat (Nathaniel Charles) Gonella was one of the first British musicians to establish a major reputation as a jazz soloist. He became a household name in the decades between his emergence as a star in the 1930s and the end of the so-called Trad Boom in the early 1960s, and remained active in music until the end of his life. He straddled the perceived divide between art and commerce, becoming a hugely popular draw as well as occupying a pioneering role in the development of jazz in the UK.
His influence on a subsequent generation of British musicians, including Humphrey Lyttelton, Kenny Ball and Digby Fairweather, cannot be understated. His own style was based firmly in that of Louis Armstrong, beginning at a time when the New Orleans trumpeter was not yet universally recognised as the great jazz master he was in this country. Indeed, Gonella told the late Max
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