Archie Shepp's Message From Paris

[JohnS]

BBC radio 4 Tuesday 7 July 11.30.

Just caught a few minutes on the car radio.  Need to hear the whole 30 minutes.

[sidewinder]

Just broadcast on BBC World Service by the same Danish producer is this sensitive portrait of Horace Parlan, recorded in his nursing home in Denmark and at Cafe Montmatre. Archie has a cameo role via the telephone !

Horace comes across as a great survivor and bright spirit. Bizarre dream story about getting served on a jumbo jet by Eddie Lockjaw Davis as a steward !

I-Player link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02whftg

 

 

 

 

Edited July 18, 2015 by sidewinder

[Leeway]

Interesting interview, many good insights. 

[sidewinder]

I wonder who the 'retired US expat drummer' is who Horace mentioned in his interview as being the only other of that wave of Danish expats still with us? The only possibility I could think of was Ed Thigpen and he passed away in 2010 I think.

[clifford_thornton]

I'm wracking my brain on this one too. Jimmy Hopps and Tootie Heath were both over there in the '60s/'70s but returned to the US, and Heath is still active.

[sidewinder]

I can only assume that it was Thigpen that Horace was thinking of and maybe his comment was mistaken.