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George Horace Webb (8 October 1917 – 10 March 2010) was a British pianist considered by many as the father of the traditional jazz movement in Britain.^[1]

He grew up with a love of early jazz recordings, principally those made by the New Orleans musicians; and in his playing he tried to re-create the style of such bands as King Oliver's.

Webb "worked as a machine gun fitter in the Vickers-Armstrong factory at Crayford. The son of a former music hall artiste turned fishmonger, he was a keen jazz enthusiast and self-taught amateur pianist. He took it upon himself to organize lunchtime entertainment at the factory, assembling scratch bands from among the workers."{{sfn|Gelly|2014|p=20}}

With his band, George Webb's Dixielanders, he played regularly and famously at The Red Barn public house at Barnehurst, Kent, from the early 1940s.^[2] "No one has ever seriously challenged their claim to have been the first British revivalist jazz band".{{sfn|Gelly|2014|p=20}} They made several recordings and BBC radio broadcasts.{{sfn|Gelly|2014|p=25}} The Dixielanders disbanded in January 1948.{{sfn|Gelly|2014|p=27}}

Webb was then part of Humphrey Lyttelton's band from September 1948 to June 1951.^[3] He reformed the Dixielanders in 1952, but this did not last long and he then concentrated on running a jazz club at the Shakespeare Hotel in Woolwich.^[3] From the mid-1960s he was an agent and manager for musicians.^[3] Early in the following decade, he returned to playing more frequently and toured Europe as a soloist.^[3] Another version of the Dixielanders operated from 1973 to 1974, and then Webb ran a pub in Essex for 12 years.^[3] After moving back to Kent, Webb was a guest in various bands into the 2000s.^[3]

Among the musicians who played in the Dixielanders at various times were the British jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, Wally Fawkes the clarinettist and Eddie Harvey the trombonist.^[1]

References

1. ^¹{{cite web|title =George Webb:jazz pianist |publisher=The Times |url =http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7062922.ece | date =2010-03-15| accessdate =2010-03-17}}
2. ^{{cite web|title =George Webb |publisher=Daily Telegraph |url =https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7442993/George-Webb.html | date =2010-03-14| accessdate =2010-03-17}}
3. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite book |first=John |last=Chilton |title=Who's Who of British Jazz |year=2004 |edition= |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn= |pp=379–380}}

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