Keith Christie

Keith Christie’s music idols were American music artists, not merely trombonists such as for example Jack Teagarden however the bandleaders they grooved with, not merely swing or New Orleans jazz messiahs but Charlie Parker, get good at from the bebop saxophone. It had been largely the United kingdom jazz viewers that surely got to listen to Christie’s ruminations on these affects, although in the past due ’50s he was on tour in both USA and Canada within bandleader Ted Heath’s clothing. Heath is in the short set of acclaimed market leaders who arrived from the United kingdom jazz scene, which trombonist caused almost all of them, you start with Humphrey Lyttelton on the tail end from the ’40s. Delivered Ronald Christie, this musician seemed to choose using his middle name of Keith. Like his alphabetically close fellow trombonist George Chisholm, Christie adored the mild banter of Louis Armstrong and his foil Teagarden, preferring traditional jazz to newer types of the genre that exchanged in experimentation or hostility. In the first ’50s he collaborated using the Christie Brothers Stompers along with his sibling, clarinetist Ian Christie. From 1953 through 1955 he was utilized by Johnny Dankworth, pursuing which he freelanced in a number of different ensembles before steadying the program with Heath. There are lots of recording credits because of this trombonist within the ’70s which are well from the jazz situation, including the initial Jesus Christ Superstar.