“It was one of my introductions to modern jazz in the early sixties when I found Ronnie Scott’s – the old Ronnie Scott’s club in London and Tubby Hayes and Jimmy Deuchar and all that.

The Jazz Couriers followed and it was the first serious modern jazz – apart from the American greats that I listened to.

Later in life when we started doing jazz in Southport The New Couriers that followed this band was a band that we featured several times and I was honoured and I was honoured to do so – it was great to keep the music alive.

This is the Couriers in concert with Ronnie and Tuby, Terry Shannon, Phil Bates and Bill Eyden.

And it didn’t get much better than this.

I still listen to it – on vinyl, with all the crackles and it sounds absolutely brilliant.”

Geoff Matthews: Salt, Liverpool, 28th June 2011

The Jazz Couriers: The Jazz Couriers in Concert

(Live at the Dominion Theatre) released 1958

Southport Melodic Jazz

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