{"id":3795,"date":"2016-07-20T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?page_id=3795"},"modified":"2017-02-17T00:56:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:56:05","slug":"alan-elsdon-band-leader-trumpeter-and-flugelhornist-15-10-1934-2-5-2016-our-tribute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?page_id=3795","title":{"rendered":"ALAN ELSDON, Band leader, trumpeter and Flugelhornist (15.10.1934 \u2013 2.5.2016) &#8211; our tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3797\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Alan-Elsdon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3797\" class=\" wp-image-3797\" src=\"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Alan-Elsdon.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Elsdon\" width=\"291\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Elsdon<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were so saddened to hear of the death of Alan Elsdon, a wonderful bandleader, trumpeter and flugelhornist.\u00a0\u00a0 Although we were not personal friends of Alan, we had the wonderful pleasure of his company at our own Jazz Club.\u00a0 Not here at Farnborough, but at our previous Badger\u2019s Mount Jazz Club in Halstead, Kent, England.\u00a0 It was in November 1991 and we had decided to hold a jazz weekend.\u00a0 Alan\u2019s band was our main attraction, although we had a wonderful selection of stars for the whole weekend, as you will see by our poster for the event.\u00a0 I can remember as clear as anything, how professional (in the nicest way) Alan was.\u00a0 He was another personality \u2018felt\u2019 when entering the club, arriving very early, practicing and also played on very late.\u00a0 What was so special about him (as with a lot of you musicians), was he wasn&#8217;t full of himself.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t see his wonderful talent as making him better than anyone else.\u00a0 Alan had played with the greats, such as \u2018Wingy\u2019 Manone, Bud Freeman, George Melley, Terry Lightfoot, \u2018Kid\u2019 Ory, \u2018Red\u2019 Allan and Cy Laurie, just to mention a few.\u00a0 He also played in Keith Nichols\u2019 Midnite Follies Orchestra (as did our own Mac White), as well as running his own \u2018Alan Elsdon Band.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly enjoyed the little time we had with him and wish his family our kind thoughts at this very sad time.<\/p>\n<p>Diane and Keith<\/p>\n<p>Farnborough Jazz Club<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were so saddened to hear of the death of Alan Elsdon, a wonderful bandleader, trumpeter and flugelhornist.\u00a0\u00a0 Although we were not personal friends of Alan, we had the wonderful pleasure of his company at our own Jazz Club.\u00a0 Not here at Farnborough, but at our previous Badger\u2019s Mount Jazz Club in Halstead, Kent, England.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3795","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3795\/revisions\/4451"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}