[Tradjazz] Graeme Bell

[Bill Haesler]

> If you're talking to Graeme, you might ask him if he remembers the Blue
> Posts, on Eastcastle Street, around the corner from the London Jazz 
> Club, and a
> trombone player called Harry Brown.
> Eric Hassell (Centennial Jazz Band, New Jersey)

Dear Eric,
Graeme didn't turn up for the lunch last week, due to a more pressing 
engagement for a routine medical check up.
However, the other day I put your your questions to him, and his 
response was immediate.
He certainly recalled the Blue Posts pub. Fondly.
His response to Harry Brown was that "Oh yes, a wonderful little man - 
and a great trombone player."
In fact, Harry Brown has is mentioned three times in Graemes 1988 
autobiography: playing with George Webb's Dixielanders, then with Humph 
at the farewell concert for the Bell band in July 1948 and later at the 
famous Royal Festival Hall concert (July 1951) before HRH Princess 
Elizabeth. Harry Brown was by then with Freddy Randall.
Graeme asked if I knew what happened to Harry following his musical 
retirement from ill health in the 1960s, but  my reference sources 
provide nothing.
Kind regards,
Bill.