Charles Fox traces the impact of American syncopated music on British popular music during the first four decades of this century and shows how British performers and composers developed their own styles.
5: Sir Bells Stampede
By the early 1930s Duke Ellington's music was inspiring many British jazz composers, notably Spike Hughes , perhaps the most adventurous of them all, who led his recording band. first in Britain, finally, in the United States, gramophone records