Description: Are you familiar with English jazz musician Kenny Ball? His legacy as a musician is one that lives on. He headed up the band that reflected his own name,
Are you familiar with English jazz musician Kenny Ball? His legacy as a musician is one that lives on. He headed up the band that reflected his own name, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen. Today, he is widely regarded as one of the most gifted jazz musicians of all-time.
Ball was born in Ilford, Essex in May of 1930. Up until the age of 14, his life was like that of many of the young boys in the area. It was then that he decided to leave school and take a job at an advertising agency. He knew deep in his heart that this was not a career path that truly spoke to him. That being said, it was the path that was available at the time. He needed the money, so he took it. While he wasn’t exactly excited to take on the job at the advertising agency, it did have one benefit that he
It would take nine years before he would have enough experience to stand on his own two feet as a professional musician, but that didn’t stop him from playing with various bands on the side from the time he was 15 or so until he went professional in 1953, at the age of 23 ( https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/999f298728f34b2fb5628286eac40eaf ). The entire time he had been playing with those bands on the side, he was practicing night and day, honing his craft. At the same time, he was also maintaining his position a