The Hammersmith Palais de Danse celebrates the Golden Jubilee of Jazz in Britain and its own Fiftieth Anniversary with a Jazz Band Ball
to the music of Chris Barber and his Band, Alex Welsh and his Band, Carl Spencer's Washboard Kings and the celebrated jazz trombonist George Chisholm
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band brought the new sound across the Atlantic in 1919. In the same year the Palais opened for dancing with the ODJB on the stand.
Steve Race introduces the programme and some special guests including
Sid Phillips and Billy Jones, The ODJB's own pianist
Televised by arrangement with Mecca Dancing
See page 31