Founder members of the Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

 Jazz Band included Diz Disley

Diz Disley

Diz Disley was an Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist and graphic designer. He is best known for his jazz guitar playing, strongly influenced by Django Reinhardt, and for his collaborations with the violinist Stéphane Grappelli....

 and clarinettist Alan Cooper (musician), both fellow students of Leeds College of Art.

Discography

St. Louis Blues (song) (William Christopher Handy)/Weary Blues

Weary Blues

The Weary Blues is a 1915 tune by Artie Matthews.Despite the name, the form is a multi-strain ragtime rather than a conventional blues....

 (Artie Matthews

Artie Matthews

Artie Matthews was a songwriter, pianist, and ragtime composer.Artie Matthews was born in Braidwood, Illinois; his family moved to Springfield, Illinois in his youth. He learned to play piano, mostly popular songs and light classics, until he heard ragtime played by a pianist named Banty Morgan...

), Tempo - Division of Vogue Records Ltd., recorded London 18.June.1949.

External links

Obituary: Alan Cooper http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/sep/28/guardianobituaries.obituaries3

Image of St. Louis Blues/Weary Blues record with audio sound-track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vuw1sOQCIU