Author Archives: "Kelbie Dave"

Clive Davis, Music Critic of The Times says it all in three sentences… An authentic voice of New Orleans, Don Vappie is a banjo player immersed in the local Creole culture — you may well have heard him in the immaculate band Django à la Créole. This unabashedly laid-back set has songs and vamps that,

2016 – LJCD16 Debut album of The Dime Notes. Hot swinging stomps and blueses from London’s most stylish vintage jazz band! Led by the celebrated partnership of clarinetist David Horniblow and Portland pianist Andrew Oliver and propelled by Europe’s finest rhythm section Dave Kelbie and Tom Wheatley. Stomps, Blueses and hard-swinging numbers from the revolutionary

Ernő Kállai Kiss Jr & His Gypsy Band Caf.e Kállai Hungaroton (77 mins) *** Tcha Limberger’s Budapest Gypsy Orchestra Black Night Please Fall Over the World LeJazzetal (73 mins) **** Finally some nota of note You wait for ages, and then two discs of sumptuous Hungarian Gypsy music come along at once. Both of these

Clarinet-driven 1920’s New Orleans jazz with The Dime Notes at Passing Clouds Wednesday 2nd December

He plays Hungarian music so well, that he is able to perform with the greatest Hungarian musicians and even among them he gives a brilliant performance. When I listen to this album I feel like I’m in the golden age of gypsy music. It sounds as he would have recorded it before the World War