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[BillF]

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[sidewinder]

On 7/7/2023 at 9:30 AM, sidewinder said:

Norma Winstone is appearing tomorrow at Swanage I think in a small group including pianist Nicki Illes. I hope to catch it. Some really good vocalists at this year’s festival, not least Claire Martin with her group. I think she lives up the coast at Brighton so sort of home territory.

Quick update for HutchFan on the Norma Winstone concert. Norma appeared in a trio with Nicki Illes, piano and Mark Lockheart, saxes. In fact, a not dissimilar lineup from the first time I saw her circa 1988 with John Taylor and Tony Coe.

Norma was in great voice, with that sublime range, phrasing and great feel for jazz. A typically varied set too, including tunes by Ralph Towner, John Taylor and Joni Mitchell. One thing that struck me was her incredible timing and ability to hit some very unpredictable pitches on fast passages on unison with Lockheart. A super performance which got an excellent reception at the festival, one of the best over a very good 3 days.

Other  festival highlights for me - Get The Blessing, Perfect Houseplants,  a Miles Davis Nonet recreation led by saxophonist Andy Panayi, Toni Kofi’s Adderley Brothers Tribute with Dennis Rollins and a fine Quintet led by saxophonist Dave O’Higgins and guitarist Rob Luft. Luft also appeared with the excellent contemporary group led by drummer Corrie Dick.

Edited July 11, 2023 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

5 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Quick update for HutchFan on the Norma Winstone concert. Norma appeared in a trio with Nicki Illes, piano and Mark Lockheart, saxes. In fact, a not dissimilar lineup from the first time I saw her circa 1988 with John Taylor and Tony Coe.

Norma was in great voice, with that sublime range, phrasing and great feel for jazz. A typically varied set too, including tunes by Ralph Towner, John Taylor and Joni Mitchell. One thing that struck me was her incredible timing and ability to hit some very unpredictable pitches on fast passages on unison with Lockheart. A super performance which got an excellent reception at the festival, one of the best over a very good 3 days.

Outstanding.  Thanks so much, sidewinder, for sharing your thoughts.

Winstone is something else!

 

[sidewinder]

46 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Outstanding.  Thanks so much, sidewinder, for sharing your thoughts.

Winstone is something else!

 

No problem !

I was just wondering as to when the previous occasion was that I saw Norma and have the feeling that it was with the recreated Michael Garrick lineup for a BBC broadcast which had the same band as ‘Troppo’. Best part of 15 years ago now. Not long before that I saw her at Northsea with Kenny Wheeler and Kenny Werner.

Henry Lowther was in that ‘Troppo’  lineup and as if by magic he was playing on Sunday night as part of a ‘Tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton’ large group. Henry in a more ‘traditional’ jazz style but good to see him in performance again in his 80s.

Time to give the Argo LP Of ‘Troppo’ a spin !

Edited July 11, 2023 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

4 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Time to give the Argo LP Of ‘Troppo’ a spin !

That's one's a corker!   

 

[sidewinder]

4 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

That's one's a corker!   

 

Yeah, sadly not easy to find. When it came out circa 1975 it went pretty well immediately into the deletions bin and sold very poorly. One of his very best too !

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Yeah, sadly not easy to find. When it came out circa 1975 it went pretty well immediately into the deletions bin and sold very poorly. One of his very best too !

It's odd what catches the public's fancy and what goes unnoticed.  Since he's not well-known in the U.S., I was very late to the party with Garrick.  But now I consider him to be one of the most interesting jazzmen of the 1970s.  The way that he put his very English stamp on jazz was unique and wonderful. 

I'm very grateful that Michael Dutton reissued Troppo -- and Garrick's other Argo releases -- on CD on his Vocalion label.  All of those Argo albums are amazing -- especially the ones with Winstone.   

 

[Rabshakeh]

42 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

It's odd what catches the public's fancy and what goes unnoticed.  Since he's not well-known in the U.S., I was very late to the party with Garrick.  But now I consider him to be one of the most interesting jazzmen of the 1970s.  The way that he put his very English stamp on jazz was unique and wonderful. 

A lot of those 60s/70s artists are not particularly well known in the UK either. It took me years to find out about the scene. These reissues have been valuable as history writing, in themselves.

[sidewinder]

I wouldn’t say that Garrick is/was not well known in the UK - from the 60s he had a pretty high profile in what was admittedly a fairly low key scene, when compared with e.g. the pop world. It is true though that his profile did drop after the mid 70s and only came more to prominence in the 1990s onwards with the publicity generated from Gilles Peterson and crate diggers ‘resurrecting’ his earlier works as part of the British jazz resurgence.

[HutchFan]

Interesting.

As an outsider looking in -- and, given my age, someone who didn't even begin listening to jazz until the mid-80s -- it seems like the Rendell-Carr Quintet (both before Garrick joined as well as after) had a higher profile than Garrick's work as a leader. 

After the breakup of R-CQ, it seems like Carr continued to make a bigger splash than Garrick. 

Do you gents think those perceptions are correct?

I definitely was aware of Carr and knew about his music long before I knew anything about Garrick.  Albums like Belladonna and Elastic Rock as well as his authoring a book about Miles probably contributed to that.

 

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

I wouldn’t say that Garrick is/was not well known in the UK - from the 60s he had a pretty high profile in what was admittedly a fairly low key scene, when compared with e.g. the pop world. It is true though that his profile did drop after the mid 70s and only came more to prominence in the 1990s onwards with the publicity generated from Gilles Peterson and crate diggers ‘resurrecting’ his earlier works as part of the British jazz resurgence.

I saw Garrick in the early noughties doing a Sunday lunch pub gig in Herts.

A trio, he played electric piano.  I got the impression there was maybe three other people there who knew who he was.  The rest just enjoyed their lunch...

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Interesting.

As an outsider looking in -- and, given my age, someone who didn't even begin listening to jazz until the mid-80s -- it seems like the Rendell-Carr Quintet (both before Garrick joined as well as after) had a higher profile than Garrick's work as a leader. 

After the breakup of R-CQ, it seems like Carr continued to make a bigger splash than Garrick. 

Do you gents think those perceptions are correct?

I definitely was aware of Carr and knew about his music long before I knew anything about Garrick.  Albums like Belladonna and Elastic Rock as well as his authoring a book about Miles probably contributed to that.

 

As someone who started listening to Jazz at almost the same time I'd agree.

The Nucleus albums had had some cross over to rock listeners of my acquaintance before then, a lot more so than Garrick who I hadn't heard of in mid 80s.

In the mid 80s we were having a 'London Jazz Revival ' which meant for me a lot of exposure for Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, Andy Sheppard, Tommy Smith et al. My exposure to the Garrick's generation really only came with Gilles P's compilations.

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Edited July 11, 2023 by mjazzg

[Rabshakeh]

The other Brits will tell me if I am wrong (I am much too young to have heard this music at the time and may have just missed the critical discussion when I was younger), but until reasonably recently I don't remember much reference to any of the late 60s / early 70s non-avant scene.

I knew of Tubby Hayes / Ronnie Scott (who I think were regarded as a little shopworn) and I certainly knew Courtney Pine (who was in critical high regard then). I was vaguely aware that in between these two lay other periods of flowering of British non-avant jazz. But I don't remember anything being much discussed other than Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood (which I think was taken as emblematic of the late 60s flowering) and snide references to Nucleus and the perceived decline of Soft Machine.

I think that the current run of reissues has really pushed the late 60s and 70s period back into the spotlight for Brits too. At least it has done for me.

Probably it is the same story everywhere. 70s US jazz is certainly better known everywhere since the Strata East and Black Jazz reissues began.

[mjazzg]

Just been surprised checking when 'Impressed With Gilles Peterson' released. 2002, I thought it was earlier.

That release and the accompanying reissue of some albums featured on the compilation really opened my ears to that generation.

[sidewinder]

The period from the late 90s to about 2005 and ‘Jazz Britannia’ saw a big raising of profile for that period of British Jazz. I recall a JazzUK mag interview with Peterson, Michael Garrick and Don Rendell. Garrick was gobsmacked at the resurgence of interest in those old recordings, most of which sold around 1000 copies or less. Still got that article filed away somewhere.

Those two ‘Impressed’ compilations were great. My vinyl copy of Vol 1 came from Graham Collier as thanks for help given. Wish I’d asked him to sign it ! Vol 3 as I recall was download only supplied by Tony Higgins and was not unlike the recent Decca sampler set.

I hope they get things rolling again at Decca with the ‘British Jazz Explosion’.

Edited July 11, 2023 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

59 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

The period from the late 90s to about 2005 and ‘Jazz Britannia’ saw a big raising of profile for that period of British Jazz. I recall a JazzUK mag interview with Peterson, Michael Garrick and Don Rendell. Garrick was gobsmacked at the resurgence of interest in those old recordings, most of which sold around 1000 copies or less. Still got that article filed away somewhere.

I would love to see that article if you ever come across it, sidewinder.  

 

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

I think that the current run of reissues has really pushed the late 60s and 70s period back into the spotlight for Brits too. At least it has done for me.

Probably it is the same story everywhere. 70s US jazz is certainly better known everywhere since the Strata East and Black Jazz reissues began.

Yes.  Good point.  It seems like there has been a seismic shift in attitudes towards 70s jazz over the last decade or two.   Not just in the U.S. but everywhere.

It's good that musicians who were ignored back in the day are -- in some cases -- finally being recognized.  Of course, many of them have already passed.  But their legacies remain out there & available to us in the form of records.

 

 

[mjazzg]

46 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

Yes.  Good point.  It seems like there has been a seismic shift in attitudes towards 70s jazz over the last decade or two.   Not just in the U.S. but everywhere.

Someone really should do a blog on 70s music...

[jazzcorner]

From the german MCA reissue series (20 volumes  issued in the 1970s)

MCA Coral  PCO 7348 / 6.22069 AK -  Jazz Lab Vol. 13 " Jazztime USA" - rec. 1953

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