But the fact is that British jazz has mainly been thought of as white jazz.

George Melly, 80, British jazz and blues musician, lung cancer.

In the early 1970s, his big band Centipede brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians.

Playing over 100 dates a year, he has been called "surely the hardest-gigging man in British jazz."

Pine is a treasure of British jazz and the audience loved him.

It continues to offer some of the best British jazz nightly and at Sunday lunchtime.

Later, the repertoire soon diversified into modern British jazz, through the poetry and jazz movement of the early 1960s.

British jazz is a form of music derived from American jazz.

The roster later included British jazz and folk as well.

His other interests include British jazz and military helmets.