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Ted Heath and His Music: Nice One Ted!

Read "Nice One Ted!" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Here’s a delightful mix of big-band Jazz, dance music and assorted odds and ends from 1948-51, courtesy of Great Britain’s longest-lived and most honored orchestra: Ted Heath and His Music. The album’s twenty-five selections comprise a number of standards from the Great American Songbook, Latin and European melodies, novelty tunes (“Rag Mop,” “Tequila,” “Post Horn Boogie”) and Jazz works by Ellington (“Sophisticated Lady”), Tadd Dameron (“Lyonia,” “Lady Bird”), Charlie Ventura / Roy Kral (“Euphoria”), Denzil Best (“Move”) and Tiny Kahn ...

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The Ted Heath Band: The Farewell Concert

Read "The Farewell Concert" reviewed by Jack Bowers


After fifty–five years of spectacular music–making the venerable Ted Heath Orchestra finally closed the door and turned out the lights for the last time in December 2000 but not before presenting an absolutely ripping farewell concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall, almost every moment of which is safeguarded on this wonderful two–disc set. For Ted’s legions of fans around the world acquiring a copy is really a no–brainer, but we’re nevertheless moved to offer a few well–chosen (we hope) words ...

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Ted Heath Plays Tadd Dameron

Ted Heath Plays Tadd Dameron

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

The U.S. had Glenn Miller and Stan Kenton. The U.K. had Ted Heath. Born in 1902, the trombonist played in jazz bands from the 1920s through the mid-1940s, when he formed his own big band on D-Day. Inspired by Miller's Army Air Force Band, with its precision and dramatic moodiness, Heath grew in popularity after the war, performing every Sunday at London's Palladium. [Pictured above: Ted Heath in the late '40s] Then came Heath's 1956 tour of the U.S. that ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Farewell Concert

Avid / Nelson
2002

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Vol .2

Summit Records
1990

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Ted Heath's 89th...

Summit Records
1974

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Big Band Themes...

Summit Records
1973

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Ted Heath's 100th...

Summit Records
1971

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