Largely self-taught at the drums, Chase had to wait for a jazz revival pioneered by the next generation to bring his chosen genre - steaming soul jazz - into favour. Professional since the mids he began playing pure jazz in London from the early 70s, with tenor .

Label: Paladin Records - PAL 5,Paladin Records - Pal 5 • Format: Vinyl LP, Album • Country: UK • Genre: Jazz • Style: Hard Bop Tommy Chase Quartet - Drive (, Vinyl) | Discogs Explore.

Tommy Chase's hard bop band achieved considerable success in the years leading up to the much-heralded UK Jazz boom of the s. As well as drummer Chase the quartet features Alan Barnes (a key figure on the British jazz scene) - alto and tenor saxes; Nick Weldon - piano; Andrew Cleyndert - /5(6).

Tommy Chase was born in Manchester in He was largely self taught and turned professional in the mid s and after working in night clubs and on cruise liners settled in London in Through the s and '90s he led his own straight ahead hard driving bebop groups with some success in the clubs and at the first Soho Jazz Festival.

b. 22 March , Manchester, England. Largely self-taught at the drums, Chase had to wait for a jazz revival pioneered by the next generation to bring his chosen genre - steaming soul jazz - into favour..

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Format: Vinyl Record LP. Decca Records, release from the USA, no date but maybe The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra was led by trombonist Warren Covington after Dorsey's death. Here they scored a hit tackling the new dance craze the ChaChaCha. 12 songs including: Tea For Two Cha Cha, Patricia, Trumpet Cha Cha Cha and others/5(15).

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