Various Artists: Best of British Dance Bands

Rating: ★★★

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Halcyon

September/2018

Put together by the late John Wadley, this is a compendium of pre-war UK dance bands, from (alphabetically) Ambrose to Starita, with plenty of jazz content and some fine playing from the bands of Elizalde, Hylton and Payne.

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