Roy Pellet

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Roy Pellett (born March 20, 1935 in Plymouth ; † February 4, 2019 there ) was a British jazz musician ( clarinet ) and band leader of Dixieland .

Pellett played in the southern English jazz scene from the 1950s; In 1961 he performed with his Hot Four together with Keith Nichols in the Duke of Cornwall in Plymouth. He toured with his band in Switzerland and Germany in the 1970s; u. a. In 1977 he made a guest appearance at the International Dixieland Festival Dresden and the Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw. During this time the three albums My Kind of Dixieland , Nearly live and One More Time were created , which were released on the Polydor label .

In his band u. a. trumpeters / cornetists Steve Lane and Andy Lawrence, saxophonist Bruce Turner, and guitarist and banjoist Dicky Bishop; in Switzerland also Robert Morgenthaler and Isla Eckinger . In 2007 he played in Plymouth with Roger Marks & The Ski Slope Syncopators ( Roger's 60th ).

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  1. ^ News of death
  2. ↑ Julian Purser, Gerard Bielderman Keith Nichols discography . G. Bielderman, 2000
  3. ^ Jazz Forum: The Magazine of the International Jazz Federation, Issues 45-50. For Jazz, 1977
  4. ↑ Friedel Keim : The Big Book of the Trumpet: Instrument, History, Trumpeter Lexicon, Volume 1 . Schott, 2005
  5. ^ The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory
  6. ↑ Michael N. Clutten, Julian Purser, Gerard Bielderman Bruce Turner Discography . G. Bielderman, 2000
  7. ↑ See Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition , edited by John Chilton (2004)
  8. ↑ Gerard Bielderman Isla Eckinger discography . G. Bielderman, 2004
  9. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 10, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Pellett, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2019
Place of death Plymouth