0055 The Ivor and Basil Kirchin Band [Gotta Be This or That] FLAC 26(1.16.20)

Contributed by delmonico, who writes:-
A compilation of singles made for EMI between 1954 and 1956.
Father, Ivor Kirchin was the Leader, Conductor and Business Manager for this popular big band formed in 1952. Son, Basil was the drummer.
There was always plenty of work around the dance hall circuit for the Band but there were no recordings until 1954 when George Martin of EMI (he of Beatles fame) spotted the talent and arranged the first recording date.
It was an eleven piece group, which always sounded much larger, and was always enthusiastic and full of verve particularly in the Latin pieces here recorded at the height of the Mambo boom in the mid 1950s. No big names but very enjoyable music.
The three vocal tracks, again cashing in on the Rock craze, by Johnny Grant (not acknowledged in the track details or sleeve notes) are perhaps dispensable for the jazz purist but that was the kind of music Bands had to play for the paying customers in those days.
Ripped in FLAC from cd with full booklet notes.

Ivor Kirchin - leader, drums
Frank Donlan - trumpet
Murray Campbell - trumpet
Trevor Lanigen - trumpet
Len Moakes - trumpet
Tony Grant - trumpet
Bobby Pratt - trumpet(?)
Stan Reynolds - trumpet(?)
Ron Simmonds - trumpet(?)
Ian Hamer - trumpet(?)
Brian Hayden - alto
Mike Senn - alto(?)
Johnny Marshall - tenor
Norman Hunt - tenor
Keith Barr - tenor
Pete Warner - tenor
Harry Perry - tenor
George Robinson - baritone
John Patrick - piano
Harry South - piano(?)
Stan Tracey - vibes, piano, percussion
Ashley Kozak - bass
Basil Kirchin - drums
Tony Crombie - drums
Johnny Grant - vocals
others unknown

01 Mambo Macoco
02 Tangerine
03 Tango Mambo
04 Panambo
05 Lester Leaps the Mombo
06 Lanigiro
07 Down Under
08 Trumpet Blues and Cantabile
09 Rock A Beatin' Boogie
10 Stone Age Mambo
11 (Oh, Baby) Beedleumbo
12 Bandbox
13 Mambo Rock
14 Tweedlee Dee
15 Gotta Be This or That
16 The Great Lie
17 Flying Hickory
18 The Roller
19 St Louis Blues
20 Big City Blues
21 Lover Man
22 Big Deal
23 Por Quoi
24 Sing Sing Sing
25 Taboo
26 Jungle Fire Dance

Label: The EMI Singles
Recorded: 1954-1956
Lineage: CD>FLAC