at The Pelican Club, Newcastle Upon Tyne, circa 1954.
Photo kindly supplied by P. Drysdale/D. Armstrong. Photographer unknown.
Programme for the Liverpool University Inter-Varsity Jazz Band Contest of 1955(Foot of right hand page shows The Don Armstrong Modern Jazz Group with the Carr brothers)
Note: Don Armstrong's Skiffle Group included Adrian Henri, the Liverpool poet who was a
rather eccentric art student at the time. He is described in Ian Carr's biography
"with his purple shirt and suede shoes... hanging from his hands from the theatre balcony" in excitement
at the performance of the "modern" jazz music at the Liverpool University event
Programme kindly supplied by Don Armstrong
of the page, which was the actual programme for the concert, listing groups playing
at the City Hall event which ended with the EmCee Five plus Ronnie Scott.