Ken Colyer

  • Listeners

    5,509

  • Scrobbles

    27.4K

  • Listeners

    5,509

  • Scrobbles

    27.4K

  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this artist

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Born
18 April 1928
Born In
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Died
8 March 1988 (aged 59)
Ken was the pioneer of British exploration of the New Orleans jazz idiom and has a great following even though he has gone to the gloryland. Ken Colyer ( 1928 - 1988) was a British traditional jazz revivalist and skiffle scenester who specialized in the New Orleans jazz and ragtime stylings. He first interfaced with New Orleans players when a young man in the UK's Merchant Navy and fater long jaunts at sea, began looking up familiar names in a New Orleans telephone directory found in the Westminster Public Library. When Ken got to the US, he thought nothing of breaking the str… read more
Ken was the pioneer of British exploration of the New Orleans jazz idiom and has a great following even though he has gone to the gloryland. Ken Colyer ( 1928 - 1988) was a British traditional jazz revivalist and skiffle scenester who specialized in the New Orleans jazz and ragtime stylings. … read more
Ken was the pioneer of British exploration of the New Orleans jazz idiom and has a great following even though he has gone to the gloryland. Ken Colyer ( 1928 - 1988) was a British traditional jazz revivalist and skiffle scenester who specialized in the New Orleans jazz and ragtime stylings. He first interfaced with New Orleans players when a young man in the UK&… read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Similar To

  1. Avatar for Monty Sunshine

  2. Avatar for Rod Mason

  3. Avatar for Terry Lightfoot
View all artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Album Loved Track name Buy Options Listeners
1 Vintage Ken Colyer Bill Bailey
  • Loading
 4 listeners
2 South! Ballin' the Jack
  • Loading
 1 listener
3 Vintage Ken Colyer Breeze
  • Loading
 1 listener
4 Midnight Special - Skiffle Set Midnight Special - Skiffle Set
  • Loading
 1 listener
5 Going Home To New Orleans Going Home To New Orleans
  • Loading
 1 listener
6 The Very Best Of Chimes Blues
  • Loading
 1 listener

View all tracks

Albums

  1. 2,846 listeners

    1 Jan 2005 · 22 tracks

    New Orleans To London And Back To The Delta - Classic Recordings from 1953/54
    • Loading

  2. 664 listeners

    19 Jan 2004 · 22 tracks

    Vintage Ken Colyer
    • Loading

  3. 224 listeners

    30 Sep 2009 · 40 tracks

    The Very Best Of
    • Loading

  4. 205 listeners

    28 Dec 2016 · 22 tracks

    New Orleans to London and Back to the Delta - Classic Recordings from 1953 / 54
    • Loading

View all albums

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
2
2
2
2
0
2
1
1
0
0
1
1
0
2
1
2
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
1
0
2
1
2
0
1
0
1
3
2
1
0
3
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
2
1
1
1
1
2
2
0
1
1
0
2
0
0
1
0
3
0
0
1
3
1
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
2
3
1
0
2
3
4
2
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
1
0
1
3
2
1
0
0
1
3
1
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
1
0
0
2
2
0
1
2
0
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
3
0
2
0
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
3

Upcoming Events

We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.

Add event View all events

Photos

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

Similar Artists

  1. 5,243 listeners

    Avatar for Monty Sunshine

  2. 2,095 listeners

    Avatar for Rod Mason

  3. 1,960 listeners

    Avatar for Terry Lightfoot

  4. 1,749 listeners

    Avatar for Chris Barber Jazz and Blues Band

  5. 2,631 listeners

    Avatar for Alex Welsh

  6. 3,166 listeners

    Avatar for Dixieland Bull's Band

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

API Calls

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss