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hello alison, l was wondering if you had any more photos of my father. Best wishes, alex moore
Hi Alex, Thanks for your message. I’m pretty sure I only have more photos from the same sessions – but I’ll certainly have a look. Best wishes, Alison
Hello Alison, I have been trying to track down a drummer called (Harry) Murray Smith who played in my (rock) band “Jive Five” in Renfrew in the mid-50s. I do know that he went on to greater things in the jazz field, and I also believe that he is now deceased. I was just wondering if the Murray Smith that features in your Glasgow Jazz Photos was the same one that I knew back then. I can email a photo to you from that time if you like to send me your email address.
(I later played for a while with John Stewarts “High Soiciety” band, with Lenny Herd, and I also had my own band “The Riverside Rhythm Kings” around the early 60′s, before I move down south, where I played for a few years with the Owen Bryce band. (Owen was one of the founders of the George Webb and his Dixielanders back in the 40s.)
Best regards, Tom Myers
Do any of your readers have a photo of Lex Kelly playing?
Hi Alison,
It was great to see these photos. My father, Iain Mackenzie, was the secretary of the Glasgow Society of Musicians, or the Club as he called it, for many years, and desperately tried to keep it from going under near the end. I was a student at Glasgow Uni, and sometimes used to pop in for gigs, and helped put on fund-raising concerts at the Mitchell Hall. Sadly I have only one photo of inside the club, and it’s not a very good one. I would very much appreciate it if you could send any more.
I looked into trying to buy the building and get a music venue up and running there again, but I couldn’t make the business case stack up. I am currently serving in Afghanistan, and is is nice to think nostalgic thoughts about the club.
All the best,
Gordon Mackenzie
soldiergordon@hotmail.com