FRANK TRAYNOR'S JAZZ PREACHERS

Frank Traynor (born 8 August 1927) was an Australian jazz musician, trombonist and entrepreneur based in Melbourne. He led Australia’s longest continuously running jazz band, the Jazz Preachers from 1956 until he died in 1985. He founded the Victorian Jazz Club in 1956. He founded and ran Frank Traynor's Folk and Jazz Club (1963–75), which played a central role in the Australian folk revival. The club featured performers including Martyn Wyndham-Read, Danny Spooner, Brian Mooney, David Lumsden, Graham Dodsworth, Trevor Lucas and Margret RoadKnight. Traynor formed his first band, the Black Bottom Stompers, in 1949. In 1951 he joined the Len Barnard Band, and that same year was voted best trombonist in the "Make Way for the Bands" poll. He also made his first recordings with this band. 

He and his band were also a regular feature at Athol's Abbey, an underground bar and grill on the corner of St Kilda Road and Park Street (known now as the Domain beneath the late Domain Hotel, now a commercial complex during the 1970s). Frank and the Jazz Preachers were also a prominent feature of the Melbourne City Council's FEIP program – Free Entertainment in the Parks lunchtime activities during the '70s under the MC of Mr Robert King Crawford, with sound (amplification provided by H. C. McLean and Son Public Address). Another regular venue during this period was the Dick Whittington Tavern in Hotham Street, St Kilda, on a Saturday afternoon. The band recorded a number of albums and singles primarily on the W&G label.  Frank Traynor died on 22 February 1985.

SINGLES

''While We Danced At The Mardi Gras / Mississippi Mud'' 1961 W&G
''Sweet Patootie (#50) / Ice Cream'' 1962 W&G
''The Longest Day / Muskrat Ramble'' 1962 W&G
''Just A Closer Walk With Thee / Washington Square'' (#77) 1963 W&G

''Please Girls, Please (#68) / Varka Yiallo'' 1963 W&G
''A Spoonful Of Sugar / Stay Awake'' 1965 W&G

''The Tapioca / Trinkt Le Chaim (The Jewish Wedding Song)'' 1968 W&G

EPs

'Jazz To Charleston, Shimmy And Cakewalk To!' 1961 W&G
'Judy Durham' [with Judith Durham] 1963 W&G
'Washington Square' 1963 W&G
'Apex Blues' 1964 W&G

ALBUMS

'Jazz From The Pulpit' 1963 W&G

'Hear The Truth' 1964 W&G

'Trad' 1965 W&G

'Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers Plays Show Tunes' 1967 W&G

'Thoroughly Modern Millie' 1967 W&G

'Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers' 1967 W&G

'Put On A Happy Face' 1974 World Record Club

'Blue Turning Grey' 1977 Roseleaf

'Favourites' 1979 Roseleaf

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Traynor

http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/