Part of the celebrated ‘Britannia’ series, an hour-long documentary for BBC FOUR charting Britain’s post-War infatuation with New Orleans Jazz. A time when enthusiastic amateurs and curious mavericks sought to recreate the sound of the Big Easy in Britain with only rare 78 records as their guide. It was a revivalist scene that saw teens jive in smokey dives to the likes of Humphrey Lyttleton and his band, Chris Barber, and George Melly. The film retraces Ken Colyer’s 1953 pilgrimage to New Orleans to play alongside his black jazz heroes at a time of fierce racial segregation. It reveals how as the British rock ‘n’ roll explosion fizzled, for a moment the trad fad looked set to soundtrack the Sixties… but by 1962 there was a cool Liverpudlian breeze in the air. Includes interviews with the late Acker Bilk and Chris Barber amongst others, narrated by Roger McGough.