Merseysippi jazz band play last gig after 77 years

One of Britain's longest-running jazz bands has played its final concert, 77 years after its first.

The Merseysippi Jazz Band were formed on Valentines Day 1949, and while it has had a number of different members over the decades, it has always stuck to the same diet of traditional Dixieland jazz.

The original group started playing at the Cavern Club in 1956 - long before the Beatles were on the scene - and represented the UK at the Sacramento Jazz festival in California regularly in the 1980s and 1990s.

The band played its final gig at the Aigburth Arms, in Liverpool, on Monday.

Click here for BBC Radio Merseyside's feature about the band

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