Alex Welsh

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Alex Welsh (9 July 1929 in Edinburgh, Scotland – 25 June 1982 in London) was a Scottish jazz musician who played the cornet and trumpet and sang.

Welsh started playing in the teenage Leith Silver Band and gigged with Archie Semple's Capital Jazz Band. After moving to London in the early '50s, Welsh formed his own band. The group, with clarinetist Archie Semple, pianist Fred Hunt, trombonist Roy Crimmings and drummer Lenny Hastings, was a backbone of British traditional jazz in the 1950s playing a version of 'Chicago style' Jazz. Tunes such as "Music of the Mauve Decade", "Echos of Chicago", andMelrose Folio" became standards in the British scene. In the 1960s Welsh's band invited guest stars such as Earl Hines, Henry "Red" Allen, and Ruby Braff to perform with them. Welsh toured internationally and played at the 1967 Antibes jazz festival and the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival.

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  • Dixieland to Duke/The Melrose Folio (1957/60)
  • Classic Concert, (1971)

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