Jazzrook will love this....
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not only jazzrook Ian
this has been a source of great joy for over 40years but is not as well known as it might be - have you come across it?
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In a more conventional mode, John Handy on his 2nd album ( it says here!)
which is much played and which prompted me to buy a two-fer of his 0n Roulette which has Richard Williams, Hanna, George Tucker and Haynes making up the quintet.Comment
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Running through youtube links I'd scribbled on odd bits of paper in order to delete the now-defunct ones, I came across this track, the title one to a 1979 Bobby Wellins album. It was (iirc) the second that Bobby made after coming out of a period of woodshedding (polite term for Bobby's recovery from hard drugs), and found him at a very special peak of creativity, with quite exceptional musicians surrounding, complementing, mirroring and bringing the very best out of him. Bobby needs accompanists of this calibre to effect results this good, (I told him - he didn't hit me!) and for me this track in particular on this album, operating on the methodology espoused by the Davis/Shorter/Hancock/Carter/Williams quintet, carries the stretching of straight-ahead chords/modes-based praxis to a plane from which it could never look back without succumbing to retrogression:
Just to calm things down and bring matters nearer to the present day, here's Bobby typically interpreting a ballad, accompanied by Kate Williams, a track from whose own new album was played a few weeks ago on JLU. Kate still, I believe, runs Way Out West, the grouping around Richmond/Twickenham-based personalities including Tim Whitehead, Peter Hurt, Chris Biscoe, Dave Barry and, sometimes, Henry Lowther, when they can get him to descend down from Muswell Hill! It used to operate from a pub in the centre of Richmond, but now has bi-monthly gigs at the famous Bull's Head in Barnes, and one monthly at the Polish Centre in Chiswick - which incidentally received some uninvited attention from anti-Polish graffiti daubers after the Brexit vote, in turn drawing the attention of police, the national press, and broadcasting media:
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Most kind of you to post that site, Rcartes, which, though I know many of the musicians, I didn't know existed!Originally posted by Rcartes View Post
You appear to be located somewhere midway between my manor and the Bull's Head, I see.
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Don't know where you are, Serial, but I'm in leafy Putney (as the tabs refer to it when they want to be snotty). So are you in, I don't know, Battersea or somewhere around there?Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostMost kind of you to post that site, Rcartes, which, though I know many of the musicians, I didn't know existed!
You appear to be located somewhere midway between my manor and the Bull's Head, I see.Comment
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Between the Crystal Palais and Dull Witch, as indicated top right hand corner, Rcartes!Originally posted by Rcartes View Post
I do occasionally go to the Bull's 'Ed, the main problem for me being that the last homebound train to make my vital connection at Clapham Junction leaves just before 11 from Barnes Bridge, and buses seem altogether too chancy. I cycle that way once or twice a summer, mainly for the beautiful towpath running from where the boating clubs end at your end of operations to Hammersmith Bridge for the river front pubs; but it's a 12-mile ride each way, and at 70 and a half I'm no longer sure my stamina would suffice for the journey home, with that long uphill last lap!Comment
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Er, that was a bit dim of me: I've never noticed that people's location was recorded in that corner!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostBetween the Crystal Palais and Dull Witch, as indicated top right hand corner, Rcartes!
I do occasionally go to the Bull's 'Ed, the main problem for me being that the last homebound train to make my vital connection at Clapham Junction leaves just before 11 from Barnes Bridge, and buses seem altogether too chancy. I cycle that way once or twice a summer, mainly for the beautiful towpath running from where the boating clubs end at your end of operations to Hammersmith Bridge for the river front pubs; but it's a 12-mile ride each way, and at 70 and a half I'm no longer sure my stamina would suffice for the journey home, with that long uphill last lap!Comment
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A lot of posters don't even mention their location; but we are obviously both proud residents of our respective districts, Rcartes.Originally posted by Rcartes View Post
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