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Ken Colyer's Jazzmen

Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen was a New Orleans jazz-influenced British group founded in 1953. Their debut release is now considered one of the most important albums in British jazz history. Trumpeter and cornetist Ken Colyer was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England on April 18, 1928. He had a reputation in the jazz world as a purest and had no interest in altering his musical vision in order to embrace commercialism. His music journey began when he joined the Merchant Navy at the age of 17, traveled around the world and ended up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was profoundly infl...