Percy France - I SHOULD CARE (1980)

[AllenLowe]

I do -

[mjzee]

Price?  And what's your Paypal address?

[JSngry]

Allen usually gives good prices, so consider buying multiple copies to give as gifts. Seriously. It's that good a record, and not everybody knows about Percy France - yet many would appreciate finding out about him.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Hear hear. I got one from Allen back in '09 and the price (inc postage to UK) was astoundingly good. The album is worth a LOT more than what I paid.

MG

PS - I used to have the album with Sir Charles Thompson - 'Swing organ' on Columbia, but didn't keep it for many years before I got poor. I managed to get another copy about a year ago and, whereas I'd have agreed earlier that it was geared for radio plays and not allowing much room for stretching out, now I don't think that's important. What I think is important, is:

1 Mr Armstrong never had trouble getting across within 3 minutes in the twenties.

2 Percy's sound - like that of so many other tenor players of his approximate era - damn well speaks for itself.

3 OK, he can do other stuff. Fine. But he did this, too, among not a very great deal of recording, so let's listen to it for what it is, not what it might have been had it been recorded for Prestige or Blue Note.

MG

[JSngry]

The cat could play a melody. That's enough if you do it right, and he did.

[fasstrack]

On 08/02/2005 at 6:33 AM, AllenLowe said:

like more than a few musicians I've known Percy was very comfortable in his hometown, had his own little niche, and may have been just a little bit nervous about trying for wider exposure - I've seen this in more than a few musicians who just didn't want to deal with a lot of the business aspects of the music and the complications of greater fame -

C. Sharpe was like that. Jimmy Raney, too. Did they have egos? Sure, but they were really about the music... 

On 10/02/2005 at 5:53 AM, AllenLowe said:

I honestly don't remember who was backing Marsh (it's been almost 25 years); the banded for LP thing was posted by someone else, I think - and as an added comment on Percy's other recordings, which are very good, none, I think, captures him as well as my little "live" recording -

Usually quartet with guitar. Randy Johnston played with him at the West End, and, I think, a guy named Bob Ward...

[fasstrack]

CD just came. 

Thanks so much, Allen. You're a peach...