Ian Christie

713PM GMT eleven March 2010

Ian Christie (left) personification clarinet

With Ian personification clarinet and Keith trombone, the Stompers was a hard-driving outfit, initial featuring Ken Colyer"s cornet and after Dicky Hawdon"s trumpet. While Keith constructed hair-raising solos Ian wove movable patterns suggestive of the New Orleans clarinettist Albert Nicholas, that valid quite considerable over an enterprising stroke section. The rope done a important disc, You Always Hurt the One You Love, with I"m so Glad on the B-side, that recaptures, improved than most records, a small of the low-pitched power of the period.

But it was transparent that something (rock"n"roll) would substitute it, and the rope pennyless up when Keith"s interests led him afar from Dixieland to stick on the modernist Johnny Dankworth; as a outcome the brothers were well known as "Christies Ancient and Modern".

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Ian changed on to Alex Welsh"s rope afterwards assimilated Mick Mulligan, with whom he did most of his most appropriate work. But whilst a fine, calm soloist he usually schooled to review song in after hold up (unlike Keith who complicated at the Guildhall) and took small notice of the associated mandate for garb work. His bad mental recall for arrangements speedy Mulligan to allot with rehearsals.

When the disappearing fortunes of "trad" led Mulligan to give up in 1962, Christie proposed essay for the repository Lilliput, whose last editor, Richard Bennett, changed to The Sunday Telegraph, where he asked Christie to write jot down and unison reviews. This led to a commission to spook articles for the clarinettist Acker Bilk, that severely tender Lord Beaverbrook, the Express proprietor. When Christie met Beaverbrook, he was so repelled by the income he was offering that "the Beaver" increasing it in the fake of not carrying realised that the initial suggest was as well small.

For the subsequent twenty-six years Christie was at home in the boozy sourroundings of Fleet Street pubs, essay facilities whilst covering theatre, radio and, particularly, films. His duplicate was breezy, contained transparent accounts of plots and done prudent make use of of clichs, as when he began one essay on Casablanca, "You contingency recollect this..."

The son of a piano tuner who played banjo, Ian Christie was innate in Blackpool on Jun 2 1927. He mostly taught himself to fool around the clarinet, and left propagandize to sight as an electrician prior to you do National Service in the RAF.

Afterwards he took a photography march and changed to London, where Keith had assimilated Humphrey Lyttelton"s band. Ian total his song with operative in the photography dialect of Harrods, but his extreme Left wing governing body led him to see the "Hooray Henriettas" he snapped as the faces of the enemy.

One of Lyttleton"s innovations was a choice with dual clarinets, in that the musical Ian Christie valid quite in effect in duets with the louder Wally Fawkes, who reflected the change of the good soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet. In 1949 the rope invited Bechet to fool around at a unison in London and available with him notwithstanding a authorised anathema on American musicians behaving in Britain.

After giving up broadcasting in 1990 Christie strong on jazz again. His tinge was likened to the woody, severe timbre of Louis Armstrong"s sideman Ed Hall when he available with Fawkes the album, That"s the Blues, Old Man (1982) in that the span reminded one censor of ducking and mountainous around each alternative similar to swallows.

He additionally available Turned Out Nice Again with his own quartet, and played with Graham Tayar"s Crouch End All Stars, proof as touching as ever in sadness and ballads even when pang in his last months from Parkinson"s disease.

He but defended his pointy humour, and wrote new difference to Summertime, that he renamed Zimmertime.

Ian Christie was tied together 3 times, initial to Jeanne Howe (with whom he had a daughter) afterwards to Sarah Llewellyn (with whom he had an additional daughter) and eventually to Belinda Francis.