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Freddie Roach


michel devos

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I'm a big Freddie Roach fan and I seem to like the stuff some souljazzers DON'T such as "All That's Good"!

All of them are good! But that one, with Calvin Newborn and Conrad Lester - phew!

If Freddie has one failing, it's doing his own sleeve notes. They're wonderful sleeve notes; I love them. But he doesn't say anything about the musicians playing with him. So I know almost nothing about Conrad, except he made four LPs, two with Freddie, one each with Joe Carroll & Jimmy McGriff. And on every one, he plays his ass off!

MG

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I found out a couple of weeks ago that Pete Fallico had done a longish piece on Freddie on his Doodlin' Lounge site. There's stuff in there I hadn't the faintest idea about. A very interesting read. It's here:

http://www.doodlinlounge.com/Stories/FreddieRoach.html

and there's a nice photo of Freddie that looks entirely blissful

FRoach2.jpg

MG

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just did a quick check.....and found this........too good to be true

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/RoachFreddie.htm

says about a piece called soul pieces....too obvious not to be him from 1969

:D

well maybe not

Andy

Blimey! Well done Andy!

It's almost certain that it's him, but if anyone's in contact with Amiri Baraka, I'm sure he's one to know.

MG

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I could of course claim all credit ( and of course will when the board is devalued again) but Mr Google deserves all the credit.

A cunning search using the latest theater (theatre over here of course luvvie) type of search terms........very specialised and geeky

search under freddie roach and plays on google and ignore boxing references!

see what others can turn up as I got distracted with other substring searches :wacko:

;)

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Both of those Ike Quebec albums are wonderful. And not just for Freddie.

MG

Amen to that!!!! Even though the best track on Heavy Soul doesn't even have Roach on it...I'm of course referring to that brilliant duet of Nature Boy between Ike & Milt Hinton.

I listen to this twofer alot, great albums well worth seeking out...

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