It turns out that Radio Luxembourg, then the commercial alternative to the BBC, ran their 208 Rhythm Club for some 13 weeks in 1962 in conjunction with record producer Dennis Preston. The artists they featured were all from Preston's stable, each 30-minute programme allowing an eager public their chance to hear numbers from each band's latest recordings. Vocalion has now located and re-mastered the tapes from these sessions and very welcome they are. Barber's band opens this first volume, Ian Wheeler's beautiful clarinet feature on ‘Sweet Lorraine’ preceding Patterson's very jaunty vocal on ‘I’m Crazy ‘bout My Baby’, the ensemble playing clean-cut and very swingy (try ‘Trad Tavern’ to be convinced) over their 13 tracks. Repertoire offers few surprises – indeed, Barber is playing some of these pieces to this very day – but it's still pleasing to hear Patterson, Wheeler and Halcox in this kind of form. Colyer's approach to New Orleans jazz was more deliberate than Barber's, young Rimington choosing to emulate George Lewis and again it's the banjo-driven dance tempos that dominate. The accent in these quite short numbers is on ensemble momentum, Colyer's own clarion lead his band's defining characteristic, the music uncomplicated but joyous and carefree. Colyer's eight performances are followed by four from the still-active Cotton's band, again solidly grounded in trad, his lesser-known sidemen acquitting themselves well. Cotton later branched out into R&B but remains now what he was then, a trumpeter of considerable class.