Nagasaki –Ian Arnott/Climax Jazz Band 1986. <br />About 5 years after Ian Arnott left our Climax Jazz Band as a permanent member he would come and join our band for local concerts in the Toronto area. <br />This clip is from one of these in 1986 during a performance at the Toronto Harbourfront Jazz Club. <br />Ian grew up in the Edinbrough, Scotland where he played quite a lot with another clarinet player called Sandy Brown. He moved to Toronto and had a job as a master printer but fortunately didn’t gave up playing the clarinet. <br />We always seem to have taking him for granted, but already then and even more now, after seeing these clips again, I realize what a talented man he really was. <br />He also had the ability to switch styles. Depending of a tune being played he would adjust his style approach. All somewhere between Goodman and Dodds. <br />In Nagasaki Ian performs in the more technical style approach and sings one of his favourite tunes which pleased audiences all over. <br />Next to Chris Daniels on bass and Jack Vincken on banjo we also had a guest drummer. Graham Scriven, a professional drummer from England, would make an annual trip to Toronto to visit family and he was always a very enjoyable and skilful addition to our hardswinging rhythm group. Nagasaki was a clarinetplayers feature so trombonist Len Gosling and cornetist Bob Erwig had a chance to get themselves a beer.
