Jazz Club, Cavern Club
Back in music's revolutionary days of the early sixties Liverpool is remembered for the famous Cavern Club and the Beatles, while Grimsby had its own infamous Jazz Club, or South Bank Jazz Club, to give it its more formal title. The similarity of these two clubs is reflected in the fact that they were part of the small fashionable back street joints jumping to the new tunes and bands of their time.
While the Beatles made customary appearances at the Cavern Club, Grimsby's South Bank Jazz Club played regular host to the like of Julie Driscoll, though both the club's origins were in Jazz. The Cavern Club opened in January 1957, followed in April of the same year by the South Bank Club. One located in the cellar of a brewery, the other in an up-stairs back room of a tool shop, just round the corner from a brewery, but both promoting the sounds of jazz. The Cavern Club's opening band was the Merseysippi Jazz Band while the Grimsby club opened with their founding and residential South Bank Jazz Band.
However, the music revolution of the swinging sixties was such that jazz quickly gave way to skiffle, rock and pop. The Cavern played John Lennon's skiffle band, The Quarrymen and eventually delivered the world the Beatles, while Grimsby's South Bank Jazz Club provided a launching pad for bands like the impressive Fleetwood Mac. Appearances by artist such as Arnold Dorsey, better known as Englebert Humperdinck interspersed the performances and the rising popularity of the local Rumble Band while surprise groups like The Showstoppers brought their own House Party to that of the South Bank Club.
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What exciting times they were!
Today the Cavern Club remains a resemblance of its hey-day, promoting Beatles memorabilia and live music. Unfortunately, the South Bank Jazz Club remains locked away in its lofty and dusty back room in what was called Dial Square. Coke bottle shades still shroud the light bulbs suspended on the stairway leading up to the music room and still bare the names of the bands and music loving members scribed on the club's walls.
The sixties are long gone but the echoes of its music remain vibrant within the walls of Grimsby's South Bank Jazz Club and still held dearly within the sixty plus year memories of its patronage.
What exciting times they were!
By; Howard Marshall
South Bank Jazz Club Member
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