Biography Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker.
Britain has produced a number of world-class tenor saxophonists, and Danny Moss was in the top three or four. Not perhaps as original as Tubby Hayes or Don Rendell, he had a warmer and fatter sound and was happy to acknowledge the many American players on whose playing his style was founded. He would have been aware of the sagacity of Steve Race's remark of 70 years ago: "There is no such thing
Jazz performer CAMPBELL BURNAP has died from cancer at the age of 68. The trombonist and radio presenter, dubbed Mr Charm, performed alongside Acker Bilk during
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