Ray Foxley

Raymond Geoffrey "Ray" Foxley (28 December 1928 – 6 July 2002) was a jazz pianist who played with Ken Colyer and Chris Barber.

Foxley's own account of his early career

The below was written by Ray Foxley himself, when he was 19, for the programme notes of "Jazz at the Birmingham Town Hall" presented by Louis Brunton in conjunction with the Hot Club of London on Saturday, June 14, 1947. Ray’s band, the Gutbucket Six shared the stage with George Webb’s Dixielanders, Bill Bramwell, the Humphrey Lyttelton-Wally Fawkes quartet, and the concert was emceed by James Asman. (Verb tenses have been retained, as in the original.)

Ray "began his musical career at the age of 14, when he took his first straight music lessons. Pianoforte rudiments did not hold any great fascination for him, however, and after about 18 months he abandoned with relief this preliminary excursion into the musical world. It was about 2 years later that, attracted by a boogie record, he went out and bought the sheet music of Cow-Cow Boogie, upon which much time and energy was expended. That was the beginning.

Foxley

Coordinates: 52°45′19″N 1°01′16″E / 52.755412°N 1.021042°E / 52.755412; 1.021042

Foxley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is about 15 miles (24 km) north-west of Norwich and 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Fakenham. It covers an area of 6.66 km² (2.57 sq mi) and had a population of 279 in 113 households at the 2001 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland.

The village is effectively divided into East and West Foxley by the A1067 road that was built as a bypass of it and the nearby village of Bawdeswell.

Foxley Wood, close by, is a site of special scientific interest and the largest remaining area of ancient woodland in Norfolk, England. It is thought to be over 6000 years old dating from the end of the last ice age.

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Foxley (disambiguation)

Foxley is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England.

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