Tony Crombie And His Rockets - Rockin' With The Rockets

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• Condition New
• Type 10" LP
• Vendor Bear Family Records
• SKU 5397102110153
• Artisti Tony Crombie And His Rockets
• Lyhyt kuvaus Re-issue of an extremely rare 10" LP from New Zealand! The original was released in 1958, also in England, but with a different cover. Recordings made in 1957 and 1958. 'Rockin' With The Rockets' is the only album released at that time. Tony Crombie was drummer and bandleader of the Rockets. The single Teach You To Rock is considered the first ever British rock'n' roll recording! Limited to 500 copies pressed on color vinyl BEAR FAMILY Vinyl Club Exclusive - Limited collector's edition, order now from Bear Family's Shop and Mailorder The first British Rock 'n' Roll recordings in our 'Bear Family Vinyl Exclusives' series! Tony Crombie was actually a jazz drummer, but the beat and groove of the ermeging rock 'n' roll music fascinated the artist, and so he switched to rock in 1956 - a short episode that ended shortly after the release of 'Rockin' With The Rockets'. Crombie turned back to jazz. What remains is an exciting musical legacy, an unjustly unnoticed testimony to the fascination that rock 'n' roll exerted on young Brits - and not quite as young British musicians. Biography Tony Crombie was born in London on August 27, 1925. The multi-instrumentalist (drums and piano) got into jazz during the war years, first playing with colleagues such as Carlo Kramer, Johnny Claes or Tito Burns in various London jazz clubs, before founding his own band in 1947. This combo toured Ireland, among other places. In those days, young people in Britain were enthusiastic about jazz from the USA. Duke Ellington and Ray Nace toured the United Kingdom accompanied by Crombie and bassist Jack Fallon. In the late 1950s, Crombie, Ronnie Scott, Johnny Dankworth, Dennis Rose, Pete Chilver and Laurie Morgen were among the founders of the UK bebop movement, which found a home in the 'Club Eleven'. In the following years Crombie backed Annie Ross, Lena Horne and Carmen McRae and played in Victor Feldman's band during the mid-fifties. At the same time he conducted his own modern jazz orchestra which also toured internationally. 1956 saw a break in Tony Crombie's musical biography. Enthusiastic about the new rhythms he heard, he turned completely to rock 'n' roll for about two years and founded The Rockets. But as early as 1958 the rocking Rockets turned into a jazz combo. A year later Crombie founded Jazz Inc. and soon thereafter went to Monte Carlo for a year before becoming the drummer in the house band of 'Ronnie Scott's Jazzclub' in 1960. In the following years he had the opportunity to accompany jazz greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Webster, Jimmy Witherspoon and Coleman Hawkins. And he worked with jazz organists such as Mike Carr, Georgie Fame or Alan Clare. He celebrated his greatest commercial success with the composition of the film music to the crime series 'The Man from Interpol'. Miles Davis recorded his So Near So Far for his 1963 album To 'Seven Steps To Heaven'. Tony Crombie died in his native London on October 18, 1999."
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