Letters: John Chilton obituary

John Childerhouse writes: In the late 1950s as secretary of the sixth-form society of the boys’ county school, Harrow, I regularly engaged Johnny Chilton and his Dixielanders to play at Saturday-night school hops. New Year’s Eve drew especially large crowds from the local neighbourhood who joined regulars from the school’s Afro-American Music Society. Jazz was a word the head would not allow. Many years later, I turned up at Ronnie Scott’s with a ticket for a 1958 dance f