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Oscar Grenville Hastings McKenzie (17 September 1922,
British Guiana – December 1999,
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), known as Mike McKenzie, was a
Guyanese jazz pianist, bandleader, vocalist, composer and arranger, who performed in London from the 1950s to the 1980s. He covered a wide repertoire, from
Habanera and
Calypso, to
trad jazz
Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, played by musicians such as Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine, based on a re ...
,
swing and
jazz standards
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. He led The Mike McKenzie Trio, Quartet and Quintet; Mike McKenzie's Habaneros; Mike McKenzie and his Rhythm; and The Mike McKenzie All Stars.
Early years
McKenzie was taught piano by his mother from the age of seven, and violin by his father from the age of 16. He played regularly in
Georgetown, then moved to London in 1949.
1950s and 1960s
At the beginning of the 1950s, McKenzie was working with producer
Denis Preston
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and for the
Melodisc and
Parlophone
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record labels. Preston rapidly established McKenzie as a regular recording artist and contributor to radio and television broadcasts for at least a decade. Preston had an ear for putting together musicians from different genres and had a production company that licensed his recordings to commercial record labels:
McKenzie's line ups similarly featured a fusion of instrumentalists:
Joe Harriott
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Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz. Born in Kingston, Harriott ...
,
Shake Keane
Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane (30 May 1927 – 11 November 1997) was a Vincentian jazz musician and poet. He is best known today for his role as a jazz trumpeter, principally his work as a member of the ground-breaking Joe Harriott Quintet ...
,
, Humphrey Lyttleton,
Denny Wright
Denys Justin Wright (6 May 1924 – 8 February 1992), known professionally as Denny Wright, was a British jazz guitarist.
A session musician for many years, Wright frequently acted as arranger and "fixer" for recording sessions. He was a proli ...
and
Jack Fallon
Jack Patrick Fallon (October 13, 1915 – May 22, 2006) was a British jazz bassist born in Canada.
Fallon played violin and studied with London Symphony Orchestra founder Bruce Sharpe before making double-bass his primary instrument in 1935 when ...
, and vocalists George Browne,
Marie Bryant and Lili Verona.
McKenzie also featured in the founding of the Black British carnival tradition. On 30 January 1959, The Mike McKenzie Trio performed with
Cleo Laine at the first Caribbean Carnival (''West Indian Gazette'' Carnival) at
St Pancras Town Hall, a precursor to the
Notting Hill Carnival. Prior to that, in 1957, he had appeared in a BBC radio programme, ''Caribbean Carnival: The British West Indies Show''. Every year, from 1954 to 1961, he represented the West Indies on a series of
BBC Radio
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programmes celebrating music from the Commonwealth.
He performed, either solo or with a combo, at London venues as well as the
Moss Empires
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circuit. They included the
Colony Room Club in Soho (1950–c.1970), Hungaria Restaurant in Regent Street (1955), The Milroy and The Empress
clubs in Mayfair and Le Caprice restaurant in St James's. In 1964, he appeared in a documentary filmed in a pub in the
Isle of Dogs
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, accompanying its proprietor,
Queenie Watts
Queenie Watts (born Mary Spenton; 21 July 1923 – 25 January 1980) was an English actress of film and television, as well as an occasional singer. , performing the
Sinatra
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classic "
The Best Is Yet to Come
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".
McKenzie freelanced or featured as a
sideman with groups such as those of
Lord Kitchener,
Joe Appleton
Joe Appleton (1900–1956) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist from the West Indies.
Appleton moved to Britain in the 1920s, and he played in dance bands both there and on the Continent through the end of the decade. In 1934 he played in Les ...
(1950), Humphrey Lyttleton (with whom he toured and recorded in 1952),
Fela Sowande
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Considered the father of modern Nigerian art music, Sowande is perhaps the most internationally known African composer of works ...
's BBC Ebony Club Band (1953) and
Lonnie Donnegan, with whom he guested.
He toured with
Jack Parnell
John Russell Parnell (6 August 1923 – 8 August 2010) was an English musician and musical director.
Biography
Parnell was born into a theatrical family in London, England. His uncle was the theatrical impresario Val Parnell.
During hi ...
in the jazz revue ''Jazz Wagon'' (c.1954), accompanied
Ella Fitzgerald
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at the Mars Bar in Paris and played at the
London Palladium
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with the
Ted Heath Orchestra.
His broadcast career with the BBC lasted for 20 years; he was a familiar name in broadcasting, with frequent appearances on the
BBC Light Programme
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, playing a huge range of styles.
He composed songs with his wife, the lyricist and actress Elizabeth McKenzie, and Denis Preston; he was an arranger for Humphrey Lyttleton and
Wally Fawkes
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Early hi ...
.
1970s and 1980s
On 28 November 1972, McKenzie started a four-year residency at The White Elephant on the River in Chelsea, accompanied by
Johnny Hawksworth
Johnny Hawksworth (2 February 1924 – 13 February 2009) was a British bass player and composer who lived and worked in Australia beginning in 1984.
Biography
Born in London in 1924, Hawksworth initially trained as a pianist, but also pla ...
and Stuart Livingston,
[ Reprinted as sleeve note in ''Music for Martini People''.] followed by seven years at
The Dorchester
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, and finally in the 1980s, nine years at
The Savoy, eventually playing from his wheelchair.
In 1978, he returned to working with the producer Denis Preston on a recording which was never released since Preston died in 1979 before it could be issued. According to its composer
Daryl Runswick
Daryl Runswick (born 12 October 1946) is a classically trained English composer, arranger, jazz musician, producer and educationalist.
Career
Runswick was born in Leicester, and educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and Corpus Christi Co ...
, McKenzie was by then firmly established as a nightclub pianist, and "had a residency at a nightclub in Mayfair – Berkeley Square, if I remember correctly. This was to be Mike's record, to be sold on the door at the nightclub as the punters left
..In a further twist, Denis prescribed that the musical style was to be Latin Fusion in the manner of
Carlos Santana. What this had to do with Mike McKenzie and his cocktail jazz I never worked out."
In 1984, McKenzie recorded an LP of his songs with Elizabeth McKenzie, ''Spell It Out'', which he co-produced with his son, the bass player
John McKenzie.
Legacy
Vibert C. Cambridge, in his book ''Musical Life in Guyana'', describes the contributions West Indian musicians made to the evolution of British popular music during the 20th century, singling out calypso recordings in particular:
In popular culture
The lyrics of "Tomato" (1952) and "Little Boy" (1953) are quoted in
Frank Norman's 1959 novel, ''Stand on Me''.
Media appearances
1953–66 TV and film appearances as self
*6 June 1953: ''Commonwealth Cavalcade: A programme specially devised for Coronation week, with leading artists from the British Commonwealth of Nations'', BBC.
*4 May 1954: ''Jazz Session'', The Humphrey Lyttleton All-Stars, introduced by Denis Preston from the Ballroom at Streatham Ice Rink, BBC.
*25 January 1955: ''Is Jazz Music?: A programme about one of the controversial aspects of modern entertainment. Berkeley Smith asks the questions and Denis Preston provides the answers", feat. Mike McKenzie, from the Ballroom of the Streatham Ice Rink, London, BBC
*3 March 1957: ''The Jack Jackson Show'', ATV.
*1964: ''Portrait of Queenie'', Eyeline Films. Documentary of singer & publican
Queenie Watts
Queenie Watts (born Mary Spenton; 21 July 1923 – 25 January 1980) was an English actress of film and television, as well as an occasional singer. , shot at The Iron Bridge Tavern, East End.
*10 July 1964: ''Carnival'', feat. Danny Williams, The Clark Brothers, Joy Marshall, The Chariots, Isabelle Lucas, Beverley Mills and Boysie Grant, Mike McKenzie, Shake Keane, The Stretch Cox Limbo Group with Geoffrey Biddeau. Introductions by Frank Holder. From the North, BBC One.
*11 May 1966: ''Viewpoint: The Happening: A new folk opera in rehearsal Annette Battams works with a group of fellow artists: Among those appearing with her are Mike McKenzie''.
1962–88 TV casting
*1 January; 22 July 1962: ''Maigret: The Reluctant Witness'', as pianist, BBC.
*5 June 1962: ''Dark Pilgrimage'', First performance of a new opera specially commissioned for BBC Television. The action takes place in a fairground, an opera house, and Pluto's night-club. London Symphony Orchestra.
ightclub scene feat. Yorke de Souza, Mike McKenzie, Shake Keane, Joe Harriott, Coleridge Goode, Thomas Jones BBC.
*1 April 1988: ''Raspberry Ripple'', as pianist, BBC One
1966 TV musical director
*3 April 1966: ''Meeting Point'':
Negro Theatre Workshop
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presents ''The Dark Disciples: a Blues version of the Passion'', BBC One.
1951–65 BBC Light Programme
*6 October 1951: ''Jazz Club: Creole Music from New Orleans and Points South'', presented by Freddy Grant's Caribbean Rhythm with The Lion, Mike McKenzie and Lord Kitchener, introduced by Denis Preston.
*22 December 1951: ''Jazz Club: Masters of Jazz: Composers whose works have become a permanent part of the jazz repertoire'', the music of
W. C. Handy
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played by the Jazz Club Blusicians featuring Humphrey Lyttelton, Mike McKenzie and George Brown, introduced by Denis Preston.
*19 July 1952: ''Jazz Club Magazine'', with Marie Bryant and Mike McKenzie.
*11 September 1952: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano.
*27 December 1952: ''World of Jazz'', ed. Denis Preston - Christmas Party Guests include: Kenny Baker, George Chisholm, Johnny Dankworth, Jack Fallon, Wally Fawkes, Don Fraser,
Stéphane Grappelli
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, Humphrey Lyttelton, Mike McKenzie, Jack Parnell, Ralph Sharon; Host, Charles Chilton.
*8 January 1953: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano.
*10 January 1953: ''World of Jazz'', ed. Denis Preston - Mike McKenzie: ''The Spanish Tinge''.
*30 June; 31 August 1953: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano.
*6 January 1954: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano.
*7 January 1954: ''The White Cockatoo: A nightclub at your fireside'' feat. ''Cabaret'' by Mike McKenzie.
*13 April 1954: ''BBC Swing Session'' feat. ''On the Beat'' with Mike McKenzie, introduced by Ted Heath.
*15 July 1954: ''How Do You Do?: A Friendly get together of Commonwealth artists'', feat. Mike McKenzie (West Indies).
*17 July 1954: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano.
*14 October 1954: ''How Do You Do?: A Friendly get together of Commonwealth artists'', feat. Mike McKenzie (West Indies).
*15 April; 9 July; 2 September 1955: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano, BBC Light Programme.
*7/14 July; 8 September 1955: ''Tempo Tropicale: Dance music from Latin America and the Caribbean'', feat. Mike McKenzie.
*1/8/15 November 1955: ''Commonwealth of Song: Artists from the Commonwealth of Nations gather in London to send greetings in song to their folks at home and to listeners in the Motherland'', feat. Mike McKenzie (West Indies) and the Johnston Singers (United Kingdom).
*1 February 1956: ''How Do You Do?: Carroll Levis introduces an informal get-together of Commonwealth artists'', feat. Mike McKenzie and his Rhythm.
*19 June; 16/22 September 1956: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano.
*9/16 September; 30 December 1956: ''Commonwealth of Song: Artists from the Commonwealth of Nations gather in London to send greetings in song to their folks at home and to listeners in the Motherland'', feat. Mike McKenzie (West Indies).
*15 February; 27 July 1957: ''Piano Playtime'', Mike McKenzie at the piano.
*17 February 1957 ''Commonwealth of Song'', feat. Mike McKenzie (West Indies).
*18 August; 1 September 1957: ''Caribbean Carnival: The British West Indies Show'', feat. Mike McKenzie.
*29 August 1957; 5/12/19/26 September: ''Paul Fenoulhet introduces Moonlight Serenade: Music with a restful rhythm'', feat. Mike McKenzie.
*6/13 November 1958: Mike McKenzie in ''Piano Reflections''.
*22 November 1958: ''Saturday Club: The best of today's "pop" entertainment'', feat. The Mike McKenzie Quartet.
*1/8 January 1959: Mike McKenzie in ''Piano Reflections''.
*2 January; 6 March 1959 ''Commonwealth of Song'', feat. Mike McKenzie (West Indies).
*24 January; 11 April; 4 July; 5 September 1959: ''Saturday Club: The best of today's 'pop' entertainment'', feat. The Mike McKenzie Quartet.
*23 August 1959: ''Without a Song: An orchestral programme in the style of Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra with Mike McKenzie at the piano''.
*23/30 August; 16 October; 13 November 1959: ''Kings of the Keyboard: Piano music in contrasting style'', feat. Mike McKenzie (Latin-American music).
*11/18/25 September 1959: ''Swingalong'', with Mike McKenzie and the BBC West of England Light Orchestra.
*19 December 1959: ''Mike McKenzie: at the piano''.
*16 January; 21 May 1960: ''Saturday Club: The best of today's 'pop' entertainment'', feat. The Mike McKenzie Quartet.
*5 March 1960: ''Saturday Club: The best of today's 'pop' entertainment'', feat. The Mike McKenzie Quartet with Scott Peters.
*9/16/30 June; 7/14/21/28 July; 4/11/25 August; 18 August; 1 September 1960: ''Piano in the Parlour'', feat. Bill McGuffie, David Lee and Mike McKenzie in an informal keyboard get-together.
*30 October 1960: ''Commonwealth of Song: Artists from the Commonwealth gather in London to send greetings in song to their friends and relations at home and to listeners in Britain '', feat. Mike McKenzie (British Guiana).
*24 July; 16 October 1961: ''Commonwealth of Song: artists from the Commonwealth who are gathered in London to send musical greetings to their friends and relations at home and to listeners in Britain'', feat. Mike McKenzie (West Indies).
*16 August; 6/27 September 1961: ''Sweet Corn: Music for Modern Squares'', feat. The Mike McKenzie Quartet.
*4 March 1961: ''Saturday Club: The best of today's 'pop' entertainment'', feat. The Mike McKenzie Quartet with Scott Peters.
*26 August 1961: ''Piano Interlude'', with Mike McKenzie.
*1/22 October 1963: ''Music to Midnight'', feat. The Mike McKenzie Trio.
*16 March 1963: ''Piano Interlude'', with Mike McKenzie.
*19 January 1965: ''Carnival'', with Cleo Laine, Scott Peters, The Mike McKenzie Trio and The Carnival Orchestra, introduced by Humphrey Lyttleton.
*18 December 1965: ''The Mike McKenzie Trio'', introduced by Roger Moffatt.
1953–59 BBC Home Service
*3/10/17/24/31 March 1953: ''First House Club Ebony'' (guest), introduced by George Browne and Earl Cameron.
*24 February; 7/14 April 1953: ''First House Club Ebony'' (guest), introduced by George Browne.
*1 April 1955: ''Midday Music-Hall'', feat. ''A Note or Two from Mike McKenzie''.
*3/31 August 1956: ''Mike McKenzie: At the piano".
*31 October; 5/12 December 1958: ''Kings of the Keyboard: Piano music in contrasting styles'', feat. Mike McKenzie (Latin-American music).
*6 February; 20 March 1959: ''Kings of the Keyboard: Piano music in contrasting styles'', feat. Mike McKenzie (Latin-American music).
1971 BBC Radio 2
*7 June 1971: "Concert Grand: piano music in contrasting styles", feat. The Mike McKenzie Trio.
Recordings
1951 with
Melodisc Records
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History
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*1188 "Al Momento" /''
The Peanut Vendor
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'' (Moisés Simons) – Mike McKenzie's Habaneros
*1207 "Mama Inez" (Eliseo Grenet, L. Wolfe Gilbert)/ ''Maria, My Own'' (Gilbert Lecuona) – Mike McKenzie's Habaneros
*1224 ''Without You'' / ''Cuban Love Song'' – Tony Johnson, Mike McKenzie's Habaneros
*1230 ''Nice Woman, Ugly Man'' / ''BG Bargee - Shanto'' – Bill Rogers, Freddie Grant's Demerarians feat Rannie Hart, tpt, and Mike McKenzie, pno
1951–54 privately recorded
ncl. in "Humphrey Lyttelton: The Other Parlophones 1951–1954" (2006)*''
Ain't Misbehavin / ''Beale Street Blues'' / ''
Georgia on My Mind
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'' / ''
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams'' – feat: Marie Bryant, Mike McKenzie Quartet (Mike McKenzie pno, Humphrey Lyttleton tpt, Denny Wright gtr, Jack Fallon bass)
1952–54 with Lyragon (
Polygon Records
Polygon Records was a British independent record labels.
History
The label was started in 1949 as the Polygon Record Company Ltd. by Alan A. Freeman and Leslie Clark, who was anxious to control distribution of his daughter Petula Clark's recordin ...
)
*J 701 ''Tomato'' / ''Rhumboogie Anna'' (Rene) – Marie Bryant acc. Mike McKenzie Quintet feat. Bertie King – alto sax
*J 707 ''War In The East'' (A. Roberts) / ''Coronation Calypso'' – Lord Kitchener (with St Vincent Street Six (feat. Fitzroy Coleman, guitar & Mike McKenzie, piano))
*J 708 ''Jazz Me Blues'' / ''Jazz Jubilee'' (McKenzie) – Mike McKenzie piano, with guitar & bass
*J 709 ''Little Boy - Calypso'' (Henderson) – Marie Bryant acc. Mike McKenzie Quintet feat. Sam Walker - tenor sax
*J 713 ''Mike's Tangena'' / ''How High The Moon'' – Mike McKenzie
*J 714 ''I Cried For You'' (Freed) / ''The Piccolino'' (Irving Berlin) – Bruce Turner, alt sax; Mike McKenzie, pno; Joe Sampson, bass; Leslie Weeks, drums; Fitzroy Coleman, gtr; Denis Evelyn, vibes; Sam Walker; ten sax
*J 724 ''The Lost Watch (Tick Tick)'' (R. de Leon) – Marie Bryant acc. Mike McKenzie Quintet
1953–54 with
His Master's Voice
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*B 10527 ''You Won't Be Satisfied'' (James, Stock)/ ''Queen Of Tonga'' (Jack Fishman) – John Paris with Mike McKenzie, the Harlem All-Stars and the Ebonaires
*G.V. 202 ''Massa Johnnie'' (trad., arr. Samuel) / ''Hog Eena Mi Cocoa'' (trad., arr. Samuel)
EF243-2A7MC 13 /
EF244-1A7MC 13 – Lili Verona with Mike McKenzie’s All Stars
*G.V. 204 ''Shake's Highlife'' (McKenzie) / ''Mambo Indio'' (Daniron)
EF 245-1A /
EF 246-2A – Shake Keane and his Trumpet with Mike McKenzie’s All Stars
*G.V. 207 ''Akinla'' (trad. collected by Mike McKenzie) / ''Fire, Fire'' (trad. collected by Mike McKenzie)
EF259-1A /
EF260-1A – Shake Keane and his Trumpet with Mike McKenzie’s All Stars
1956–57 with
Parlophone
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*M.P. 126 ''Calypso Mambo'' (George Browne) – George Browne With Mike McKenzie's All Stars
*GEP8594 ''Calypso Time'': "When woman say no she means yes" / "A little more oil in your lamp "(and the Ebonaires) / "Somebody bad stole de wedding bell (Who's got de ding dong?)" / "Woman is a man's best friend" – George Browne with Mike McKenzie's All Stars
*GEP 8620 ''Calypso Time No. 2'': "The Peanut Vendor" / "Matilda, Matilda" – George Browne with Mike McKenzie's All Stars
1957 with
Pye Nixa
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*''Mike's Moods'': "
Manhattan
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" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) / "You Better Go Now" (Irvin Graham, Bix Reichner, from ''New Faces Of 1936'') / "Give Me The Simple Life" (Harry Ruby, Rube Bloom) / "Maybe I Should Change My Ways" (Duke Ellington) – Mike McKenzie Trio
1960 with Columbia
*SEGC 4 ''Meditating with Mike McKenzie: Mike McKenzie plays and sings Hoagy Carmichael'': Side One: "Judy" (pno and vcl)/ "Georgia on my Mind" pno solo
*SEDQ 613 ''Mike McKenzie'': "Cemile: Tango" (Papadoupolos)/ "Elmina: Tepo" (Papadoupolos)/ "Siboney" (Lecuona)/ "Occhi Verdi" (Menendez) – pianoforte con accompagnamento Ritmi
1974 with
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1978 unreleased
*"El Plantano": ''Canto'' (Daryl Runswick)/ ''Dee Dee'' (Daryl Runswick)/ ''One for Denis'' (Daryl Runswick) – produced by Denis Preston, recorded at Lansdowne Studio A; Norma Winstone, vce; Tony Coe, reeds; Henry Lowther, tpt, flugelhrn; Phil Lee, lead gtr; Dick Abel, rhythm gtr; Alan Branscombe, keyboards, perc; Daryl Runswick, mus dir, bss gtr, string synth, elc pno, dble bss, vce; Harold Fisher, drums; Chris Karan, drums, perc; Tony Carr, drums, perc; Mike McKenzie, pno solo, vce; Don Harper, vln/vla
1984 with Lizilu
*LU001 "Spell It Out": Side One: ''Sweet Music'' (McKenzie)/ ''I Believe in Love'' (McKenzie)/ ''Can I Buy You A Dream'' (McKenzie/Alec Hyams)/ ''Love Me Now'' (McKenzie)/ ''Something Else'' (McKenzie) – Lizzie & Mike McKenzie; produced by Mike and John McKenzie; Lizilu/ Mellow McKenzie Songs
Compositions and arrangements
*''Can I Buy You A Dream'', Mike McKenzie, Alec Hyams
*''Closing Time'', Wally Fawkes, arr. Mike McKenzie (in ''6 piano transcriptions from the Humphrey Lyttleton & Paseo Jazz Band Library'', arr. Mike McKenzie)
*''Hop Frog'', Humphrey Lyttleton, arr. Mike McKenzie
*''I Believe in Love'', Mike McKenzie
*''Jazz Jubilee'', Mike McKenzie
*''Love Me Now'', Mike McKenzie
*''Mama Creole'', Mike McKenzie, Elizabeth McKenzie
*''Mike's Tangana'', Mike McKenzie, Denis Preston
*''Shake's Highlife'', Mike McKenzie
*''Small Hour Fantasy'', Humphrey Lyttleton, arr. Mike McKenzie (in ''6 piano transcriptions from the Humphrey Lyttleton & Paseo Jazz Band Library'', arr. Mike McKenzie)
*''Something Else'', Mike McKenzie
*''Strange Love'', Mike McKenzie, Elizabeth McKenzie
*''Sweet Music'', Mike McKenzie
References
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1922 births
Guyanese musicians
British jazz pianists
20th-century Black British male singers
Guyanese emigrants to the United Kingdom
1999 deaths
20th-century British pianists
20th-century Guyanese male singers