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Yes, and of course he played with Soft Machine too! A true Canterburyan.
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Saxophonist/Flautist Jimmy Hastings has died aged 85. For anyone unfamiliar with his work, he played an important role on the Progressive scene playing on early albums by Caravan and Hatfield And The North's The Rotters Club where he infused the albums with proper jazz solos thus inspiring a whole Prog rock generation to the joys of jazz. Jimmy was a fine and respected player on the British mainstream scene and had of course been a member of Humphrey Lyttelton's bands. RIP Jimmy.
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On 2/10/2024 at 1:24 PM, romualdo said:
I'm amazed that Tony Oxley's wonderful RCA release "Ichnos" has never made it to CD (is this listed in Labyrinth?)
what a lineup: Wheeler, Rutherford, Parker, Bailey, Guy & Oxley - doesn't get much better than that
Yes, Ichnos is given a double page spread in Labyrinth. I agree it really needs to be reissued just as Oxley's two albums for CBS were reissued on CD some years ago.
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Not for nothing he won top place in the drummer section of the Melody Maker Jazz Polls for four years running (1969-1972). I witnessed him playing with Gordon Beck at the Barry Jazz Summer School. He was phenomenal and electrifying. IMO he was the best drummer the UK has produced. Apparently John McLaughlin employed him on Extrapolation because there wasn't another drummer available who could handle the complex time signatures. He will be sorely missed. RIP Tony.
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A new magnus opus by Richard Morton Jack is published in January and looks a fantastic read for those interested in the "Golden Age" of British jazz.
Labyrinth - British Jazz On Record 1960-75
more details from the elvinyl website here:
www.elvinyl.com
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Brian Godding passed on 26 November aged 78. His guitar work was crucial on Mike Westbrook's major albums, Citadel/Room 315, The Cortege and London Bridge Is Broken Down. He started his career playing in Blossom Toes and BB Blunder. He then backed Julie Driscoll followed by contributing to her husband Keith Tippett's Centipede album. He played on one of Westbrook's Solid Gold Cadillac albums, Brain Damage and then played with French prog band Magma and other bands including his long stint with Mike Westbrook. He was a very talented guitarist and will be greatly missed. R.I.P. Brian.
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10 hours ago, JSngry said:
I guess this would be her last public musical statement?
Thanks! That was so funny. Never seen it before. Humour was another vital element of her work.
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Damn! One of my favourite musicians and composers. Her brilliant of EOTH is a masterpiece. But her many other timeless recorded works will live on too. R.I.P.
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BBC Radio 3 Jazz Record Requests this Sunday, October 8, 2023, 16.00hrs GMT - tribute show to John Marshall. Also will be on BBC Sounds catch-up app.
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Thank you! But I would add that John and Pete at Jazz In Britain were instrumental (no pun intended) in getting this 3rd edition out and so professionally too.
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John Marshall, best known as drummer with Nucleus and Soft Machine has passed away aged 82. His last studio album Other Doors with Soft Machine was released earlier this year. His contribution to jazz was immense. He played on many significant records including those by Mike Gibbs, Mike Westbrook, John Surman, Graham Collier, Eberhard Weber and Jack Bruce, to name just a few. He will be sorely missed. RIP John.
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4 hours ago, sidewinder said:
Thanks Roger - I’ll order forthwith and ‘my bookshelf over-floweth’ !
Thanks! Probably the best purchase you'll ever make!!! 😊
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Debating whether or not to order (board member) Roger F’s Ian Carr critical discography, 3rd Edition. Thanks to Roger I have the first 2 - maybe he can advise if the changes merit going for the 3rd Edition?🙂
Sorry for the delay in response Sidewinder but I can confirm that the 3rd edition is expanded, up-to-date and includes corrections to errors and omissions that occurred in the previous two editions. I can also say that I don't receive any income from sales of the book since, as with most if not all the JIB products, they are the result of a labour of love promoted by a not for profit organisation. So I can therefore advise that the (extremely good value!) 3rd edition is *definitely* worth forking out for. Plus of course the CD that's included with it. Hope that helps.
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Just received this email from Mark at Confront…
Yes, all the CDs are mastered in stereo. Some of the earlier tracks were in mono or almost mono, in which case that integrity has been maintained in our stereo master file.
(So I’m ordering it forthwith!)
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On 6/13/2023 at 3:37 PM, T.D. said:
Roger, please post your findings here. I'm interested in the set, by no means a stickler for stereo but it'd be good to know.
T.D. My findings may take some time as much as I love Skid’s work I’ll only consider purchasing this box if at least 50% is in stereo. I realise many folks actually revere mono but I don’t. Have contacted Confront Recordings re: this question but have not yet had a response.
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On 6/10/2023 at 2:00 PM, mjazzg said:
It was discussed in passing on another thread somewhere, a few weeks ago.
I have it, production values high on the presentation. Sound quality is consistently good across all discs bar maybe three tracks where quality is a bit bootleggy.
All from Skidmore's personal archive
Mjazzg are any of the six discs recorded in stereo?
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9 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:
From an earlier studio album, I’ve always found his solo reading of “Martha My Dead” inspired.
Would love for others here to listen (below), and give their impressions (good or bad).
Beautiful deconstruction; this less opaque but fascinating still…
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Brad Mehldau's new album Your Mother Should Know wraps a collection of Beatles tunes (plus a Bowie number) into one album. Mehldau has been interpreting the Fabs' number for years but only sporadically. Here it is full-on and at times totally fascinating - I Am The Walrus for solo piano anyone. Definitely worth a listen.
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Well I would go as far as to say 'great' but very underestimated. Larry is a really talented guitarist who can play superbly in a number of different contexts not just jazz rock and fusion. He played acoustic guitar duets and trios with McLaughlin and has recorded with people as diverse as Stephane Grappelli, Charles Mingus and Michael Mantler. He may not be as well known as McLaughlin and say, Allan Holdsworth, but he is a superb guitarist. One example is on a non-jazz album, just given a limited re-issue on CD, 'Playback' by Appletree Theatre. He plays electric guitar on this and although there are not many guitar solos when they do happen the whole thing just lights up. Jim Pepper used Coryell on Pepper's Pow Wow for much the same reasons I believe.
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Nice to see a thread about a great British bass player. I agree that all the others mentioned are also great too and not forgetting that veterans like Jeff Clyne played with the likes of Tubby Hayes. As did Ron Mathewson for whom there is a benefit coming up shortly at the Bull's Head in Barnes.
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also the song hazard profile is the same as song for the bearded lady which nucleus did on both live and studio albums and might be interesting to check out for people like felser as both marshall and jenkins were in nucleus at the time.
can you point me towards some specific Nucleus albums to check out with Marshall and Jenkins on them? Thanks for the tip. I know who Nucleus is, but haven't really heard them much.
Felser, yeh, the first three Nucleus album all have Marshall and Jenkins on; 'Elastic Rock', 'We'll Talk About it Later' and my personal favourite, 'Solar Plexus' which also features Kenny Wheeler and Harry Beckett amongst others. You can now buy these as two-fers and very good they are too. Check out the full details (discos etc) on the Nucleus website here:
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This is the title of the new debut album by this young tenor saxophonist, which is remarkably good. There is a review of it on the Remember Tubbs website here:
Introducing Simon Spillett - Review
Simon is no Tubbs copyist though and there are four excellent tracks on the album written by himself. Although not released officially until January copies are available now directly from Simon at his gigs where by all accounts he seems to be shifting quite a few copies.
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I went to the Ian Carr Tribute Concert at London's Guildhall School of Music on Tuesday and have posted a review of the concert on the Ian Carr and Nucleus Website here:
British jazz reissues
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Tangentially, but related to HB, the recent Soft Machine 7" single features an excellent version of Harry's composition The Dew At Dawn. He was as good a composer as he was a trumpeter, and is very much missed.