George Webb obituary

Father of British trad jazz, he inspired Humphrey LytteltonThe pianist and bandleader George Webb, who has died aged 92, was an unlikely revolutionary. Dapper and straight-talking, he played decent traditional jazz piano and knew the real thing when he heard it. Enthused by the 1920s New Orleans jazz style epitomised by Louis Armstrong and King Oliver, he formed a band in 1942 and set about replicating the music captured on their recordings, this apparently innocuous activity appearing radical a...

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