Thanks to his hit "Midnight in Moscow," Kenny Ball had one of the best-known jazz bands in England, a trad group whose brand of Dixieland was quite popular in the years immediately preceding the rise of The Beatles. This live LP from 1962 finds trumpeter Ball and company certainly giving the audience a good time with exciting (and sometimes riotous) versions of a variety of standards; six of the ten songs have vocals by bandmembers. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi