Jazz artists included Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and Buddy Rich. Lonnie Donegan played banjo for the Jazzmen, and also performed skiffle music during intervals. Jazzmen Louis Armstrong and Bix Biederbecke played on Mississippi River steamers. The Jazzmen made regular appearances on Sunday nights at the Wood Green Jazz Club. The first jazzmen were from the white Creole tradition and also the darker blues tradition. Jazzmen is a book on the history of jazz. Again, it was arranged and recorded by jazzmen, including guitarist George Golla. In 1955, he formed his band, Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans Jazzmen. Harper considered Ayler to be "one of the leading jazzmen of the age". In 1962, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen got US hit "Midnight in Moscow". The Mike Cotton Jazzmen and The Mike Cotton Sound. Many proved to be high-caliber jazzmen. Lewis visited England in 1957, playing throughout the country with Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. He worked on-and-off in inspection until early 1969, when he joined Kenny Ball's Jazzmen.