A HAMPSHIRE jazz mecca is mourning the death of two famous bandleaders.
Jazz legend Terry Lightfoot, whose appearances at Eastleigh’s Concorde Club stretch back to the early sixties, has died just days after the death of another club regular, trumpeter Kenny Ball.
Ball had once been a member of the band led by 77-year-old Lightfoot who lost his battle against prostate cancer.
Lightfoot last appeared at the Stoneham Lane club in February 2012 when he headlined an international jazz night with his singer daughter Melinda Lightfoot.
Last year he returned to the home of those iconic festivals to star in a jazz concert with his talented jazz singer daughter Melinda Lightfoot. Sadly it was to be his last appearance.
Today Concorde boss Cole Mathieson was joining the jazz world at the Essex funeral of 82-year-old Kenny Ball, who died of pneumonia.
Cole said: “We seem to have lost so many of the British jazz greats.”
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