Benny Featherstone Prince of Good Fellows

The life and times of a legendary Melbourne musician who lived life with the brakes off Arguably the first notable Australian jazz improvisor he mastered many instruments trumpet trombone clarinet and piano But most of all he was and excellent drummer Throughout the thirties Benny played hot jazz in a multitude of bands inspired perhaps by hearing the hot Harlem rhythms of the Ellington and Armstrong bands in London during a 1933 visit