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Billy Jenkins (born 5 July 1956) is a blues guitarist, composer, and bandleader. July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ...
Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Initially Jenkins sprang to fame as a member of Burlesque, then as part of Trimmer & Jenkins. A short period followed as a member of Ginger Baker's Nutters. For several years, he was the Rigsby of Greenwich, running Wood Wharf Studios by day. He mixed this with work on his own VOTP Records and leading the Voice Of God Collective, a group which included many of the best young players of its time, such as Iain Ballamy, Django Bates, Steve Watts, Ashley Slater, and other members of the group Loose Tubes. The band released several scathing commentaries on suburban life such as Sounds Like Bromley and Uncommerciality. Photograph of Sally Rand, 1934. ...
Peter Edward Ginger Baker (born August 19, 1939, Lewisham, South London) is an English drummer who gained fame as a member of Cream from 1966 until 1968. ...
Greenwich (pronounced grenn-itch or by some grinn-itch ) is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ...
Iain Ballamy (born February 20, 1964 in Guildford) is a british soprano, alto and tenor saxophone player. ...
Django Bates (born October 2, 1960 in Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom) is a composer, virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and band leader. ...
Loose Tubes was a big band based in Britain during the mid-to-late 1980s. ...
In the 1990s, Billy Jenkins recorded several albums on Oliver Weindling's Babel Label and led some fabled seasons at the Vortex Jazz Club. He is now best known as a blues guitarist and commentator de nos jours. He is also the captain of Francis Drake bowls club on Hilly Fields, Lewisham. He masterminded a successful season of live music to accompany the 2006 World Cup at the Vortex Jazz Club. tsOliver Weindling (born 14 September 1955) is a jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label. ...
The Dalston Culture House now houses the Vortex Jazz Club. ...
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ...
Swifts Creek Bowls Club Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling) is a precision sport where the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than ones opponent is able to do. ...
Lewisham is an area within the London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London. ...
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities - usually national teams or individuals representing their nation - compete for the title of world champion. ...
The Dalston Culture House now houses the Vortex Jazz Club. ...
See also
The Oxcentrics were a Dixieland jazz band founded in 1975 at Oxford University. ...
External links - Billy Jenkins website
- Billy Jenkins' MySpace page
- Babel Label website
- Vortex website
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