The pianist, composer, arranger and forever gregarious host of MY MUSIC has died. He was 88.
Notable among the man’s many accomplishments were a stint as Associated Rediffusion’s light music consultant; his tenure as host of Radio 4′s brilliantly named Home In The Afternoon; and bagging an award for a Birds Eye frozen peas jingle, “Sweet as the moment when the pod went pop”.
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Trad Jazz BritanniaIt always amuses us when we see clips of Double Your Money and notice the category board includes both “jazz (traditional)” and “jazz (modern)”, though it is true that at that point trad really was big news, the nascent Pick of the Pops spinning off from Trad Tavern being just one example of its hold on the nation’s teens in the early sixties, despite it being influenced by music some forty years old at the time.
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