CD cover: Black British Swing: The African Diaspora's Contribution to England's Own Jazz of the 1930s and 1940s. Topic Records, 2001.
This compilation of recordings from the British Library's National Sound Archive features such prominent jazz bands as Ken "Snakehips" Johnson & His West Indian Dance Band, Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson and His Coloured Orchestra, and Cyril Blake and His Jig's Club Band. The cover photograph is of Ken "Snakehips" Johnson's band.
Courtesy of Ray Funk.