Early Musical Career
1958 saw him securing a residency at the Cellar Club in Soho, he then joined bands that were led by Teddy Layton and Sonny Morris.
In the early 1960s Allendale fronted his own group called The New Orleans Knights, possibly also referred to as The Jazz Knights who were regulars on the trad jazz circuit. The New Orleans Knights also featured the likes of drummer Colin Miller who years later joined the Chris Barber Band., banjo player Eddie Edwards who took up his first professional opportunity in this band. and drummer Laurie Chescoe . Two singles, were released as the Landsdowne Jazz Series on the Columbia Records label in the UK in 1962. One of the singles, "Little Hans" had Allendale credited as the new music arranger.
During the 1960s, he was also a member of a couple of jazz groups, namely the Terry Lightfoot and Alex Welsh bands and Edmundo Ros. He also had played trombone and sung in a blues band called 'Dillingers' with saxophonist Don Mackrill and bassist Ronnie Shapiro, the brother of Helen Shapiro.
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