Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"Soho - life after dark with an enamel gloss, and the cracks showing. Garish, gay, avaricious and a little sleazy at the edges."

Francis Williams reports on the nightlife of Soho in London's West End. He visits Cy Laurie's Jazz Club, where he speaks to members of Sonny Morris' Jazz Band: Sonny Morris (trumpet), Johnny Johnson (bass), Eric Allendale (trombone), Martin Borman (banjo), Lloyd Chesco (drums) and Teddy Layton (clarinet). What does jazz mean to them?


Clip taken from Panorama, originally broadcast on Monday 2nd November,1959.





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