page_title: Jazz of Birmingham
section_title: Post-war jazz
hierarchical_section_title: Jazz of Birmingham / Post-war jazz
caption_attribution_description: Jazz saxophonist Andy Hamilton
context_page_description: Jazz has been popular in Birmingham since the 1920s, an era when interest in the music within England was otherwise largely confined to London. The Birmingham Palais was one of the pioneering venues of British jazz and opened in Ladywood in 1920, hosting early touring bands from the United States such as the Frisco Jazz Band in 1920, Benny Peyton’s Jazz Kings in 1921, the Paramount Six and the Southern Rag-a-Jazz Orchestra in 1922, and Bill Shenkman's Buffalo Orchestra in 1923. The Palais also maintained its own resident bands that combined notable visiting American musicians such as Sidney Bechet and Emile Christian with emerging local musicians who would go on to establish the native British jazz tradition, such as Bill Harty, Billy Jones, Jack Raine, and Jack Payne.
context_section_description: Jazz was still largely unknown in other cities outside London when it was revived in Birmingham in the late 1940s. A highly successful series of jazz concerts were held at Birmingham Town Hall from 1946, and the city's jazz clubs re-emerged with the opening of the Rhythm Club and the Hot Club in 1948.
  From the late 1980s the saxophonist Julian Argüelles and his brother drummer Steve Argüelles were major players in contemporary European jazz.
caption: Andy Hamilton
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