Farnborough Jazz Club

Ron Russell - leader & bass
Digby Fairweather - trumpet
Tim Huskisson - clarinet
Dave Hewett - trombone
Stan Bourke - drums
Jim Douglas - guitar

This page will be update later (with info about the rest of the band), but here is a taster about guest star Digby Fairweather to enjoying:

Taken from Digby Fairweather’s own Web site:
www.digbyfairweather.com about Friday, 9th July 2010

At FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB with old friend RON RUSSELL’S great Dixieland band featuring Ron, Tim Huskisson, Dave Hewett, Jim Douglas, and Stan Bourke! You can find us at Farnborough Sports Club, High Street, Farnborough, Kent BR6 7BB. Doors open at 7.30pm; tickets are £8.00 and the music goes from 8.30-11.30. There’s plenty of parking too but dancing as well, so leave the car outside! Great music with that Condon touch……………!

and some info found on Wikipedia:
Digby Fairweather (born 25 April 1946, Rochford, Essex) is a British jazz cornettist.
Fairweather has been a professional jazz musician since 1 January 1977, but worked for seven years before this date with several local jazz bands in the Essex area and recorded his first album in 1975. When turning professional, Fairweather helped found the Keith Nichols Midnite Follies Orchestra, started recording solo albums, and joined a quartet known as Velvet with guitarists Denny Wright and Ike Isaacs plus bassist Len Skeat. Before becoming a professional musician he was a librarian and he has retained a strong interest in jazz bibliography and archiving.

In 1979 Fairweather became co-director of the non-profit Jazz College along with pianist Stan Barker and he also joined the Pizza Express All Stars. In 1982 Fairweather began leading a quartet of his own and helped revitalize Kettners Five along with bassist Tiny Winters. His playing has been influenced especially by Nat Gonella and Louis Armstrong, and his Digby’s Half Dozen band provided the regular accompaniment for the singer George Melly in the later years of his career[1]. Following that period, Fairweather’s band has accompanyied former Manfred Mann lead singer Paul Jones in a series of blues and jazz gigs. Apart from his playing and bandleading, Fairweather has long pursued a parallel career as a broadcaster and writer on jazz.

In 1985 he worked in a Brian Priestley septet and authored the book How to Play Trumpet. By this time he was actively broadcasting for the BBC, deputising for Humphrey Lyttelton on the show Best of Jazz. In 1987 Fairweather founded the Association of British Jazz Musicians and the National Jazz Archive[2]. That same year he became leader of the Jazz Superkings. Fairweather also helped bring jazz musicians into the British Musicians’ Union in 1990. During the early portion of the 1990s Fairweather was hosting radio shows on BBC Radio 2 called Jazz Parade and Jazznotes. In 1994 he began working with The Great British Jazz Band and continues to teach and do solo work. In 2008 he took up residency at Digby’s Place, located at the Railway Hotel, Clifftown Road, Southend on Sea, Essex. Following the death of Humphrey Lyttelton, he was invited to succeed Humph as the Patron of the Birmingham International Jazz Festival.